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This week we are live from Bravo-Con in Las Vegas, and we welcome Melissa Rivers in for a candid talk about romance, fashion, red carpets and how Who Are You Wearing became a staple on TV. Melissa hijacks our show in the beginning and questions our 20 years together and how it all began with an enchanting first encounter in New York amidst a jungle-themed photoshoot, leading to our passionate first kiss. The conversation then shifts to Pol's expertise in fashion. He describes his approach to designing unique, emotionally resonant couture gowns, differentiating his work from conventional black dresses. Patrik adds to this by highlighting how Pol infuses emotion into his creations. A light-hearted segment about engagement rings reveals Pol's impressive 22-carat ring, followed by Patrik's romantic gesture of flooding Pol's boutique with flowers. The episode takes a nostalgic turn with discussions on “Fashion Police” and Joan Rivers' legacy in television comedy and fashion commentary. We play a quick fun game of I WANT THIS…NOT THAT and discover what's important to Melissa when choosing a man. Does she prefer flash, cash or dash? Which Below Deck show and captain are her faves? Lingerie or pajamas, Wheel of Fortune or Name That Tune, and what words of wisdom does she reveal? The Armenian Coffee Grounds Reading is amazing, and Melissa produces a beautiful cup with Pol' offering insights into her life. Is she following her passions and what projects are coming to life? It's a a deeply personal and hopeful glimpse into Melissa's future with Melissa ending the show exhausted and exhilarated and who is the new person entering into her home? Chapters [02:20] What happens in the Big Apple doesn't stay in New York. [05:33] I create custom couture with emotion…Bitch! [06:54] It's a simple 22 carrots. [11:00] Melissa is newly engaged and we're not discussing that. [11:50] Fashion Police and On the Red Carpet started it all. [13:00] Who are you wearing was Joan Rivers legacy. [15:30] “On the Red Carpet” is canceled over dinner but, “Fashion Police” begins. [17:45] Joan Rivers Anna Nicole Smith misunderstood and partying in heaven together. [18:30] Will you be in our movie? [20:30] Betty White's items auctioned off. GAME TIME - “I want this NOT THAT!” [23:40] Screw the dick size and open up that wallet. [24:20] Can you “Name That Tune”? [25:16] It all winds up in ball at the edge of the bed. [25:45] “Vanderpump Rules” or “Summer House”? [26:00] Scheana Shay's wedding gown. ARMENIAN COFFEE GROUNDS READING [29:00] Melissa is putting down new roots and building a new family unit. 34:54 What does a lightning bolt mean? Subscribe to our audio: linktr.ee/undressedpod Follow Pol Atteu: Instagram: @polatteu Tiktok: @polatteu Twitter: @polatteu www.polatteu.com Follow Patrik Simpson: Instagram: @patriksimpson Tiktok: @patriksimpsonbh www.patriksimpson.com Follow Snow White 90210: Instagram: @snowwhite90210 Twitter: @SnowWhite9010 www.snowwhite90210.com Watch Season 4 of Gown and Out In Beverly Hills on Prime Video. www.gownandoutinbeverlyhills.com #UndressedPodcast Armenian Coffee Reading: https://polatteu.com/armenian-coffee-cup-read Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In today's episode, we have a special guest, Jonathan Beal, the producer of the viral true crime podcast called LISK: Long Island Serial Killer. Jon played a pivotal role in establishing MOPAC Audio, a subsidiary of the television production MOPAC. His team pioneered MOPAC's successful foray into podcasting, yielding acclaimed audio hits. Before Mopac, Jon worked with renowned companies, including Audible, A&E Television, YouTube, and VH1. We will be diving into his role as the executive producer of "LISK: Long Island Serial Killer," an exclusive podcast of Glassbox Media.We dive deep with Jonathan into the making of the phenomenal podcast "LISK: Long Island Serial Killer." Prepare for a journey through the intricate world of podcasting, unpacking the fascinating backstory of "LISK," and gaining insights from a true industry veteran. Stay tuned for an episode filled with depth, discovery, and industry insights.Follow Glassbox Media on Instagram and LinkedIn. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/glassbox-media/message
The feature-length documentary follows Philadelphia Eagles team captain and All-Pro center Jason Kelce throughout the 2022-23 season Kelce, a feature-length documentary that follows Philadelphia Eagles team captain and All-Pro center Jason Kelce throughout the 2022-23 season, will premiere September 12 exclusively on Prime Video, just ahead of the return of Thursday Night Football, which kicks off exclusively on Prime Video with the Minnesota Vikings visiting Kelce's Eagles on Thursday, September 14.Kelce is the latest addition to the Prime membership. Prime members in the U.S. enjoy savings, convenience, and entertainment, all in a single membership.Kelce is an intimate and emotional feature-length documentary that chronicles Philadelphia Eagles team captain and All-Pro center Jason Kelce's 2022-23 season, which began with him confronting one of the most challenging decisions any professional athlete will ever face-is now the time to hang it up? After deciding to return for his 12th NFL season, Kelce embarked on a remarkable journey, highlighted by the arrival of his third daughter; the debut of his chart-topping podcast New Heights, which he co-hosts with brother, Kansas City Chiefs All-Pro tight end Travis; and a history-making Super Bowl appearance that placed the entire Kelce family at the center of the sports world.But as the season came to a close, Kelce was still left grappling with what life looks like after he moves on from the game he loves, and if this hungry dog has one more run in him."Jason Kelce has established himself as one of the most compelling and influential characters in sports, both on and off the field," said Matt Newman, head of Prime Video Original sports content. "We're privileged to partner with Skydance Sports, 9.14 Pictures, Vera Y Productions, and NFL Films on this project, which welcomes fans into the psyche of one of the greatest centers in the history of the league for what is arguably the wildest and most eventful season of his illustrious career."Presented by Prime Video Sports and Skydance Sports, Kelce is produced by 9.14 Pictures, Vera Y Productions, and NFL Films. Kelce is executive produced by Connor Barwin; David Ellison, Jesse Sisgold, and Jon Weinbach of Skydance Sports; and Ross Ketover, Pat Kelleher, and Keith Cossrow of NFL Films. Sheena M. Joyce, Don Argott, and Larry Platt serve as producers. Argott also serves as director. Here's the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0ld-xuh898ABOUT DON ARGOTT, SHEENA M. JOYCE AND 9.14 PICTURES Director and cinematographer Don Argott formed 9.14 Pictures with producer and director Sheena M. Joyce in 2002. Together with editor Demian Fenton, they created ROCK SCHOOL, the company's first feature-length documentary, about the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Philadelphia. After screening at Sundance and South by Southwest, and given rave reviews by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Ebert & Roeper, ROCK SCHOOL was released worldwide theatrically in June 2005, on DVD in September 2005, and on A&E Television in 2006.The Art Of The Steal was named by Roger Ebert as one of the Best Documentaries of 2010. Last Days Here won awards at many festivals, including the IDFA PLAY Award for Best Music Documentary at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. Other films include The Atomic States Of America, As The Palaces Burn, Slow Learners, Batman & Bill and Believer, which won the Best Documentary Award at the Hollywood Film awards as well as Best Documentary at the GLAAD Media Awards.FILMS ROCK SCHOOLTWO DAYS IN APRILTHE ART OF THE STEALLAST DAYS HERETHE ATOMIC STATES OF AMERICAAS THE PALACES BURNSLOW LEARNERSBATMAN & BILLBELIEVERFRAMING JOHN DELOREANKEEP SWEETKURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIMEDIO DREAMERS NEVER DIEKELCETELEVISION THE BOND - 4 episodes -DiscoverySLUGFEST - 10 episodes - RokuUNSOLVED MYSTERIES "Washington Insider Murder" - NetflixCAT PEOPLE - 2 episodes - NetflixSPECTOR - 4 episodes -ShowtimeTHICK SKIN - 4 episodes - AMC Network Watch now on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Kelce-Jason/dp/B0B6LVV89J
Steve Curran is the CEO and Co-founder of Burn Ghost Games, a Web3 skill-based game platform. Steve is an entrepreneur and creative technologist with extensive experience in developing interactive entertainment and marketing solutions utilizing games, virtual reality, augmented reality, and other emerging media. He has directed award-winning entertainment-based solutions for clients such as Red Bull Records, Sony Entertainment, Warner Brothers, Atlantic Records, Puma, The History Channel, A+E Television, Burger King, Mattel, Animal Planet, and many others.He is the author of two books on design, including MOTION GRAPHICS Design for Broadcast and Film and CONVERGENCE DESIGN Design for Interactive Television Broadband and Wireless. He was a contributing author to one of the first books on Social Media CONNECTED MARKETING - writing on branded entertainment. He is the CEO and Co-founder of Burn Ghost Games, a Web3 skill-based game platform.In this conversation, we discuss:- Why casual gaming is crucial to Web3- The future of Play-to-Earn gaming- Video games are the biggest use case for Web3- Why do some games go viral while others fizzle?- Why are we so captivated by trivia games?- Wine talk- Working with world-class brands- Launching NFTsBurn Ghost GamesWebsite: www.burnghost.comTwitter: @burnghostgamesDiscord: discord.gg/burnghostSteve CurranTwitter: @Steve_CurranLinkedIn: Steve Curran --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This episode is brought to you by PrimeXBT. PrimeXBT offers a robust trading system for both beginners and professional traders that demand highly reliable market data and performance. Traders of all experience levels can easily design and customize layouts and widgets to best fit their trading style. PrimeXBT is always offering innovative products and professional trading conditions to all customers. PrimeXBT is running an exclusive promotion for listeners of the podcast. After making your first deposit, 50% of that first deposit will be credited to your account as a bonus that can be used as additional collateral to open positions. Code: CRYPTONEWS50 This promotion is available for a month after activation. Click the link below: PrimeXBT x CRYPTONEWS50
Check out this fun and informative encore episode of The Lebenthal Report we welcome Keynote Speaker & Author, Brittany Hodak. Brittany Hodak, is an award-winning marketing expert and customer experience speaker, she holds a master's degree in marketing and is the author of “Creating Superfans”. Over the years, she oversaw multi-million-dollar and award-winning campaigns for Johnson & Johnson, A&E Television and LG. Michael and Dominick discuss with Brittany how to build a community of loyal customers. They explore why customer retention is so vital to business success, and she shares tried-and-true strategies for keeping your customers engaged and loyal. They look at the importance of building personal connections with your customers & clients, providing excellent customer service, and creating a positive user experience. You'll be a superfan of this episode- Now available on Voiceamerica.com, YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
This week on the Lebenthal Report we welcome Keynote Speaker & Author, Brittany Hodak. Brittany Hodak, is an award-winning marketing expert and customer experience speaker, she holds a master's degree in marketing and is the author of “Creating Superfans”. Over the years, she oversaw multi-million-dollar and award-winning campaigns for Johnson & Johnson, A&E Television and LG. Michael and Dominick discuss with Brittany how to build a community of loyal customers. They explore why customer retention is so vital to business success, and she shares tried-and-true strategies for keeping your customers engaged and loyal. They look at the importance of building personal connections with your customers & clients, providing excellent customer service, and creating a positive user experience. You'll be a superfan of this episode- Now available on Voiceamerica.com, YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
This week on the Lebenthal Report we welcome Keynote Speaker & Author, Brittany Hodak. Brittany Hodak, is an award-winning marketing expert and customer experience speaker, she holds a master's degree in marketing and is the author of “Creating Superfans”. Over the years, she oversaw multi-million-dollar and award-winning campaigns for Johnson & Johnson, A&E Television and LG. Michael and Dominick discuss with Brittany how to build a community of loyal customers. They explore why customer retention is so vital to business success, and she shares tried-and-true strategies for keeping your customers engaged and loyal. They look at the importance of building personal connections with your customers & clients, providing excellent customer service, and creating a positive user experience. You'll be a superfan of this episode- Now available on Voiceamerica.com, YouTube, Apple Podcasts and Spotify!
An in-demand executive recruiter in the e-commerce space, serving over 150 companies, Harry Joiner is the President and CEO of eCommerce Recruiter. The firm recruits top-tier talent for the National Retail Federation and B2B organizations. Harry's accolades include closing job searches for manager, director, VP, and the C-suite for companies such as A&E Television, Adidas, REI.com, and more. Additionally, Harry has been featured in SUCCESS magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg Businessweek. In this episode… The e-commerce world is rapidly evolving with the addition of big-name brands and startups. From retail to streaming services, consumers have a plethora of shopping options. Furthermore, shopping channels are a preferred method of retail therapy for several reasons, including convenience, the age of smartphones, and social media integration. With access to so many smart devices, it makes sense for career seekers to search online. According to Harry Joiner, an e-commerce recruiting extraordinaire, fulfilling premiere job positions equivocates to drafting elite sports figures such as Tom Brady and Steph Curry. As an e-commerce recruiter, he and his business partner are highly selective. He also understands the business side of recruiting, such as economics and the client's business strategy. But what else goes into this new-age recruiting process? Join Josh Hadley, host of the eComm Breakthrough Podcast, as he talks with Harry Joiner, the President and CEO of eCommerce Recruiter, about recruiting top talent for businesses in the electronic commerce space. Harry explains attracting A-level talent for companies, including developing a business strategy, identifying elite candidates, learning new skills, and more. Resources mentioned in this episode: Josh Hadley on LinkedIn eComm Breakthrough Consulting eComm Breakthrough Podcast Email Josh: Josh@eCommBreakthrough.com Hadley Designs Hadley Designs on Amazon Harry Joiner on LinkedIn Harry Joiner eCommerce Recruiter eCommerce Jobs CMO Search Allan Seibert on LinkedIn Andrew Youderian on LinkedIn Bill LaPierre on LinkedIn Kevin Hillstrom on LinkedIn Special Mentions: Search Engine Watch Steven Pope on Linkedin My Amazon Guy Roland Frasier on LinkedIn Kevin King Books: The Ultimate Sales Letter 4th Edition: Attract New Customers. Boost Your Sales by Dan S Kennedy No B.S. Direct Marketing: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Direct Marketing for Non-direct Marketing Businesses by Dan S Kennedy No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoners Guide to Time Productivity and Sanity by Dan S Kennedy No B.S. Price Strategy: The Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt Take No Prisoner Guide to Profits, Power, and Prosperity by Dan S Kennedy
According to IMDb, Doug Hajicek has had a very successful Television career spanning more than 35 years. His accomplishments are also many in the Television and scientific worldHis World firsts include building the camera system that filmed the first giant squid well over 54' feet long living in its natural habitat. See (Predators of The Deep) 2 hour History Channel Special 2020.He was also responsible for Filming the first ever birth of wild Black Bears and the first to document wild Mammals of different species co-habituating. He is the Creator and Producer for the hit TV series "MonsterQuest" airing on: The History Channel, 4 seasons. 70 one hour episodes. Doug Hajicek resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Other series he produced: Call of the Wild - PBS, House of Babies - Discovery, The Man Who Walks With Bears - Animal Planet, Narrated by Mark Hamill, North Country, NBC, Golf Bound series, Tech Director Survivorman Bigfoot-Les Stroud- Discovery, Consultant In Search Of Series- History, The Proof is Out There - History. Britain's Big Cat Mystery A&E Television 2022 Big Cat Hunters - A&E Television 2022. Giganto- The Real King Kong- film- History Channel.Hajicek also invented interactive and patented Augmented Holographic theaters. He also Hosts the Popular Utold Radio AM live show and Podcast since 2020. Hajicek also has many writing credits along with the creation of a many Book Covers. He has appeared on the Today Show numerous times, along with hundreds of podcasts and Magazine articles including Newsweek.Video Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science
Social media and digital marketing are becoming more popular, as the available number of platforms increases. Small and medium-sized businesses can benefit because the cost of advertising on social media is lower than traditional media. Dorothy Breininger, aka Dorothy the Organizer, is our guest on this episode of &B to talk about organizing your digital information. Bruno's first question for Dorothy is “How can small businesses organize their digital marketing content?” The answer, take time up front to identify the end results you want to achieve. #digitallifecloud #digitalmarketing #documentmanagement #organization #businessinformation #hoarders #dorothytheorganizer #organizeyourbusiness #bossorganizer | Dorothy Breininger is America's Most Innovative Professional Organizer and served on the board of directors for NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers), is a member of the ICD (Institute for Chronic Disorganization). Dorothy is A&E Television's expert organizer on the Emmy-Nominated TV series, “Hoarders.” She also appeared on the Today Show, the Dr. Phil Show, QVC and PBS in addition to being featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Women's Day, Better Homes & Gardens and the Christian Science Monitor. "DorothyTheOrganizer" has thousands of clients ranging from corporations such as Southern California Edison, institutions such as UCLA, celebrities, and individual small businesses & busy moms. Dorothy's newest book is Stuff Your Face OR Face Your Stuff. She also co-authored Time Efficiency Makeover, Cherished Memories - The Story of My Life, The Senior Organizer and Chicken Soup for the Soul book “Life Lessons for Busy Moms – 7 Essential Ingredients to Organize and Balance Your World” with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. https://www.dorothytheorganizer.com | BE OUR NEXT GUEST: https://www.megapixxmedia.com/andb?affiliate_id=3004257 About B: LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/2ZrzOmz Dream Reach Achieve: www.dreamreachachieve.com “&B”: www.andb.ca Edited: Tiana Winter & Artin Rahim Copy Writing: Ines Quandel . . . The views and opinions expressed in the video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of MegaPixxMedia Ltd and their Affiliates Any content provided by our bloggers or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything. This video is for entertainment only.
When you think of hoarding, what comes to mind? A physical space stuffed top to bottom with random junk. That is not usually a problem faced by companies, but what about all the paperwork and electronic files that it takes to manage your business? Dorothy Breininger, aka Dorothy the Organizer, is our guest on this episode of &B and Bruno has some questions for her about digital hoarding. They talk about how we can tell if we are hoarding information, and why we hoard information. The answers to that second question touch on intention and identity. To get the full answer tune into the show. Dorothy also has a great tip for turning all our accumulated information into money if we organize it the right way. 00:00 Trailer 00:20 Introduction 01:35 Is hoarding impacting your business 03:36 Hints you may be hoarding 07:10 How much of the solution is psychological vs. Physical 08:40 Fear of losing your identity 09:40 Your business' digital junk 10:30 What else does Dorothy do 11:30 Organize your content to make money 13:14 Contact Information #organizing #declutter #hoarding #digitalclutter #hoarders #dorothytheorganizer #gettingorganized #organizeyourbusiness Dorothy Breininger is America's Most Innovative Professional Organizer and served on the board of directors for NAPO (National Association of Professional Organizers), is a member of the ICD (Institute for Chronic Disorganization). Dorothy is A&E Television's expert organizer on the Emmy-Nominated TV series, “Hoarders.” She also appeared on the Today Show, the Dr. Phil Show, QVC and PBS in addition to being featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, Women's Day, Better Homes & Gardens and the Christian Science Monitor. "Dorothy TheOrganizer" has thousands of clients ranging from corporations such as Southern California Edison, institutions such as UCLA, celebrities, and individual small businesses & busy moms. Dorothy's newest book is Stuff Your Face OR Face Your Stuff. She also co-authored Time Efficiency Makeover, Cherished Memories - The Story of My Life, The Senior Organizer and Chicken Soup for the Soul book “Life Lessons for Busy Moms – 7 Essential Ingredients to Organize and Balance Your World” with Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. https://www.dorothytheorganizer.com The views and opinions expressed in the video are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of MegaPixxMedia Ltd and their Affiliates Any content provided by our bloggers or authors are of their opinion and are not intended to malign any religion, ethnic group, club, organization, company, individual or anyone or anything.
For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here: https://youtu.be/DTiQGl9tPoM Peabody Award winning broadcaster, director, designer, filmmaker and producer. Afternoon host on New York's Classical Radio Station 105.9FM, WQXR, host of the national radio concerts of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and has hosted more than 60 concerts on-stage at Carnegie Hall, where his film FACE TO FACE premiered. Founding Executive Artistic Director of ArtsRock.org of Rockland County, NY. For 20 years he's been bringing professional concerts, theater and conversations to his upstate community. Co-Creator and Producer of the National Tour of AN EVENING WITH ITZHAK PERLMAN and MICHAEL FEINSTEIN CELEBRATES JUDY GARLAND. Co-Director and Projection Designer of the live national tour and PBS TV Special of CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD by Craig Hella Johnson. Executive Producer of The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park on the Radio of RICHARD II. Elliott has directed several versions of A CHRISTMAS CAROL with such Scrooges as David Hyde Pierce, F. Murray Abraham, Brian Cox, Tony Roberts and Kathleen Turner. He regularly produces, directs and designs symphony concerts: LA Philharmonic, The NY Philharmonic, Houston Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, New Haven Symphony Pasadena Pops and the Little Orchestra Society in venues including the Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl and Lincoln Center. Orchestra narrator: Saint-Saens' Carnival of the Animals, Peter and the Wolf, Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale and Britten's Young Person's Guide. For 12 years, Host for A&E Television's Breakfast with the Arts. BA in Theater from the University of Texas, Austin. www.ElliottForrest.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Leah Messina is the founder and CEO of Sinuate Media, a marketing technology firm, in 2006 after working at a digital agency in NYC leading accounts for American Express, Sony Music, A&E Television, & others. She is an innovative digital media planner, delivering industry-leading marketing strategies, and is known for guiding clients to use the latest marketing technologies to get a competitive edge. At Sinuate Media, she has led cutting edge campaigns for everything from World Extreme Cagefighting to senatorial races. She is a frequent speaker on digital marketing and an advisor to the startup community. A native New Yorker, she started her business & went to grad school in Baltimore, before settling in New Mexico, where she lives with her husband and 3 kids.Joe Sutton joined Sinuate Media in 2018. Bringing 10+ years of cross-industry sales and marketing experience, Joe has helped Sinuate sign some of their biggest clients including Spaceport America and Electronic Caregiver. He is a proud husband and father, and a serial hobbyist who spends his spare time learning new interests like home brewing, blogging, disc golfing, and more.Learn more about them and their work:https://sinuatemedia.com/https://approachpositive.com/Follow them on social mediaIG @sinuatemediaTwitter @sinuatemediaFB @sinuatemedia LinkedIn @sinuatemedia***Consider making a donation to help the children affected by the crisis in Ukrainehttps://www.unicef.org/--Listeners of The Robin Smith Show can now join our Kiva Lending Team and help us in our effort to bring more good into being.Join Team Robley on Kiva!
On today's edition of TruNews, Rick talks about the latest revelations regarding the late Hugh Hefner, founder of Playboy. A&E Television released the first segment of a 10-part documentary series on Monday titled Secrets of Playboy. The A&E series contains shocking information from former Playboy bunnies about the real Hugh Hefner, including horror stories of abuse and bestiality. The information is disturbing. Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 1/27/22.
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
“ Be honest with yourself. You don't have to know everything before you do anything. Take the first step. Educate, don't speculate. And find the people that are doing what you want to do at the highest level possible. Do your due diligence and then step into action. “ - Dave Seymour After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
How does the law of reciprocity apply in real estate investing? Through coaching. Educate other people. Knowledge is only powerful when implemented. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
“ As You Become More Knowledgeable In Your Industry, You See More Opportunities.” - Dave Seymour After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
Attracting a real estate investor who understands the business is critically important in finding and growing your capital. Returning the profit of their investment is essential in building trust. It is hard work but when a few investors earn your trust then showing other investors that you are worthy of their investment becomes an easy part. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
“ Do not give value to someone with an expectation of something in return. Just give because giving is good. When it comes to charity and being philanthropic don’t do it to get recognized. Do something good for somebody else then keep your mouth shut” - Dave Seymour After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
The reality of the real estate business is not real in reality TV. Reality Tv has to create a story, some may call it a show. If you are watching these shows, watch them for their show value do not watch them for educational value. If you want educational value find mentors in the real estate industry that actually does the nit and grit of the real estate business. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
Jay Conner and his special guest, Dave Seymour talk about what made David leave his former job as a firefighter and chose the real estate business instead. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
Everyone struggles when starting a business. Watch this short video as Dave Seymour shares his best lesson learned in the real estate business. Let his mistakes be your guide to the success of your own business. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. For more valuable information click on this link and watch the complete episode: https://youtu.be/TsjTiaF82mA - “The Reality of Real Estate Investing with Dave Seymour & Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority” Real Estate Cashflow Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Free Webinar: http://bit.ly/jaymoneypodcast Jay Conner is a proven real estate investment leader. Without using his own money or credit, Jay maximizes creative methods to buy and sell properties with profits averaging $64,000 per deal. What is Real Estate Investing? Live Cashflow Conference https://youtu.be/QyeBbDOF4wo The Conner Marketing Group Inc.P.O. Box 1276, Morehead City, NC USA 28557 P 252-808-2927F 252-240-2504 Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZfl6O7pRhyX5R-rRuSnK6w https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEstateInvestingWithJayConner RSS Feed http://realestateinvestingdeals.mypodcastworld.com/rss2.xml Google Play https://play.google.com/music/listen#/ps/Ihrzsai7jo7awj2e7nhhwfsv47y iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/real-estate-investing-minus-bank-flipping-houses-foreclosure/id1377723034 Watch on ROKU: Roku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvestingRoku https://my.roku.com/add/realestateinvesting Watch on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/How-Locate-Real-Estate-Deals/dp/B07M9WNZR6/ref=sr_1_3
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com******************************************************************To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv*** AND NOW ***The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.comThe ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com ****************************************************************** To listen to all our XZBN shows, with our compliments go to: https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewpaper.com
The expression “multifaceted” is just one of the many ways to describe Angelica Bridges. Angelica who hails from a small town in the USA and began her leadership and philanthropic aspirations at the age of 16, when she was crowned, Miss Missouri Teen made her bold move to Los Angeles, California to pursue her entertainment and educational dreams. She is is perhaps best known for her role as “Lt. Taylor Walsh”, on the international television series, “BAYWATCH”, The show which would go on to become, “The Most Watched Television Show in the World; and aired in 142 countries but has featured as an actress, presenter, model and spokesperson for some of the biggest shows and networks in the world as well as some of the most iconic publications inc. Maybelline, BMW, Geico, Nivea, Bally, Lexus, Mitsubishi, MTV, American VH1, E Television, The Young Hollywood Awards, Fox News, NYPD Blue, That 70's Show, Veronica Mars, The Bold and the Beautiful and countless more. She lives for philanthropy and has dedicated her life to animal rescue as well as humanitarian causes regularly donating her time to many other charitable; non-profit organizations besides her own foundation, AngelicKitchen.org which prepares and donates meals to the homeless and those in need of food in Los Angeles. Listen in to this amazing episode as we hear where it all started for Angelica, the drive it took to leave her small home time to head to the bright lights of Hollywood to pursue a career in Entertainment whilst also throwing herself deep into studying Communications at UCLA. We delve deep in to a story that is so much more than what people see on the external and who the person truly is, and not who people think she is from an on screen persona. We also hear of her passion for giving back with her humanitarian efforts, her passion for mental health advocacy and her upcoming film 'Sarogeto' from Award Winning Director Nico Santucci which is filled with relevant and thought provoking subjects including mental illness, and depression. To find out where you can find Angelica, simply click the links below: Foundation: http://www.angelickitchen.org/ IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004774/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Socials: @angelicabridges Sarogeto: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6943138/ To find out more information about the Imperfectly Perfect Campaign, our Global Efforts and how you can get involved, simply head to our official website at imperfectlyperfectcampaign.org A big thank you to our Voice-Over: Mike Christensen (thevoicemonkey.com)
Real Estate Investing With Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority
Today, Jay Conner, The Private Money Authority has a very special guest, Dave Seymour. They discuss the reality of real estate investing. The nit and grit of the business. The struggles and lessons that need to be learned in order to achieve success in the real estate business. Plus, Jay and Dave also talk about the best way how to grow capital! All these and more in Real Estate Investing with Jay Conner. After 16 years as a firefighter and paramedic, Dave Seymour launched his career, rapidly becoming one of the Nation’s top real estate investors. Within his first few years, Dave had transacted millions of dollars of real estate and had become one of the Nation’s leading experts in both residential and commercial transactions. His unabridged passion for business and real estate put him on the radar of the A&E Television network as well as multiple television organizations like CBS, ABC, CNBC, Fox News, and CNN. New York Times reported that Dave Seymour’s series “Flipping Boston” posted the highest ratings ever for the A &E Network at the time of airing. Dave has been sought after as a “tell like it is” mentor and motivator in the real estate world with a track record of unmatched success everywhere he reaches. Dave is well-known for doing business alongside investors on their very first real estate deal as well as guided some of the largest investment firms in the nation through complex transactions. Timestamps: 0:01 - Get Ready To Be Plugged Into The Money 1:06 - Jay’s New Book: “Where To Get The Money Now” -https://www.JayConner.com/Book 2:16 - Today’s guest: Dave Seymour 4:27 - The Secret Origin of Dave Seymour 8:10 - Dave talks about when he started his real estate business. 10:10 - Early struggles and best lesson learned by Dave Seymour. 14:18 - What niche in the real estate business that you focused on? 16:49 - The best way to grow capital. 21:07 - Dave talks about his reality tv show “Flipping Boston” 24:06 - What does the law of reciprocity means to Dave Seymour? 26:54 - How does the law of reciprocity apply in real estate investing? 28:22 - Books recommended by Dave 29:04 - Dave’s parting comments: “ You don’t have to know everything. Educate don’t speculate” 30:39 - Connect with Dave Seymour - https://www.FreedomVenture.com Private Money Academy Conference: https://www.jayconner.com/learnrealestate/ Take Lou's Course: https://www.udemy.com/course/realtors-and-real-estate-investing/?referralCode=305A2A5DB2A2C4543B7F Lou Brown has been buying, selling and holding property for 40 years and you are about to discover what a lot of so called gurus are missing. * How to buy all the property you want without ever visiting a single bank or needing to qualify for a loan… * How to have a buyer or renter before you even buy property… * How to have them already pay you money before you sold them anything… These are exactly the kinds of deals he does day in and day out. Most ‘investors’ are getting it wrong. It’s not about the property, it’s about the buyer. Buying right and buying cheap is what you’ll do after you have the buyer. Media Sites: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/StreetSmartInvestor Podcast: http://Streetsmart.mypodcastworld.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/StreetSmartInvestor/ Web Site: https://millionairejumpstart.com/ and https://streetsmartinvestor.com/ Real Estate investors in all fifty states across Canada and fifteen foreign countries including as far away as Australia and New Zealand, have long regarded the training, systems and forms created by Louis Brown as the best in the industry, Quoted as an expert by many publications and authors, “Lou” draws from a wide and varied background as a real estate investor having been buying property since 1976. He’s invested in single-family homes, apartments, hotels, developed subdivisions and built and renovated homes and apartments. Each of these experiences has given him a proving ground for the most cutting-edge concepts in real estate today. He’s widely known as a creative financing genius with his deal structuring concepts. Being a teacher at heart he enjoys sharing his discoveries with others. He has served the industry in many volunteer positions such as past President and designated lifetime member of the Georgia Real Estate Investors Association, the world’s largest real estate investor group. He is also founding President of the National Real Estate Investors Association, which serves as the umbrella association of local investor groups.
Michele Ghee is the CEO of Ebony and Jet, the iconic and storied Black magazines that were launched by Chicago publisher John H. Johnson about 75 years ago. Over the past 20 years, she has been an executive with The Weather Channel, A&E Television, CNN, BET, and William Morris Endeavor. Michele has been at the helm of Ebony and Jet for a few months now. The new owners of the brand are former NBA player Junior Bridgeman and his family—and they have big plans in store. In this conversation, Michele covers a lot of topics, including how she builds and manages teams. She discusses how she is living her purpose as the CEO of these brands and the exciting challenge of bringing these brands to life using modern channels. Support our sponsor Deloitte and experience their guidance on resilience for brands in navigating the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn more at Deloitte.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Sidney D. Kirkpatrick is the Pulitzer Prize nominated best-selling author of seven books, which include A CAST OF KILLERS, HITLER'S HOLY RELICS, and EDGAR CAYCE: AN AMERICAN PROPHET. The only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, Sidney and his wife Nancy have authored some thirty articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. A compelling and accomplished speaker, Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work. Biographical profiles of Kirkpatrick have appeared in The New York Times, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, and Playboy. Visit his website and follow his newsletter at: cayceuniverse.com Our radio shows archives and programming include: A Different Perspective with Kevin Randle; Alien Cosmic Expo Lecture Series; Alien Worlds Radio Show; Connecting with Coincidence with Dr. Bernard Beitman, MD; Dick Tracy; Dimension X; Exploring Tomorrow Radio Show; Flash Gordon; Jet Jungle Radio Show; Journey Into Space; Know the Name with Sharon Lynn Wyeth; Lux Radio Theatre - Classic Old Time Radio; Mission Evolution with Gwilda Wiyaka; Paranormal StakeOut with Larry Lawson; Ray Bradbury - Tales Of The Bizarre; Sci Fi Radio Show; Seek Reality with Roberta Grimes; Space Patrol; Stairway to Heaven with Gwilda Wiyaka; The 'X' Zone Radio Show with Rob McConnell; and many other! That's The ‘X' Zone Broadcast Network Shows and Archives - https://www.spreaker.com/user/xzoneradiotv *** AND NOW *** The ‘X' Zone TV Channel on SimulTV - www.simultv.com The ‘X' Chronicles Newspaper - www.xchroniclesnewspaper.com
While sitting poolside, Pace Morby discovered the insane power of social media. Now, he has a huge following and landed three major clients by posting before-and-after photographs of his construction work on Instagram. In this episode, Toby Mathis of Anderson Advisors talks to Pace Morby, who has done more than 7,000 renovations and built more than 150 new homes from the ground up. Pace owns several businesses, including American Home Offers, which does 150 wholesale transactions per year, and Blue Acorn Development, which does 50 fix-and-flip deals per year. He owns about 130 single-family homes purchased through SubTo and Seller Finance; ConstantClose transaction coordinator business; Title Alliance of Phoenix title company; VAhub virtual assistant business; SubTo creative finance education business; BombCRM software business for new investors; and Driving for Dollars BatchDriven software business. Also, Pace has three successful podcasts, Sunday Service, Wholesale Hotline, and Get Creative; a YouTube channel; and negotiating with A&E Television for a six-year contract to do a renovation TV show. Highlights/Topics: Creative Finance: Content that double, triples, and quadruples conversion rate Day in the Life of Pace: Just a guy who wants to help everybody–come along for the ride Estate Planning: Who do you trust to inherit and manage your properties? Zero Equity, Loan Pain: Reasons seller sells at a discount or on seller finance REI: Replace expenses with income Ways to Wholesale: Direct to seller, referrals, and reviving dead leads Previous Sellers: Where Pace gets private money to invest in more deals Pace’s Three Choices: Live on cash flow, reinvest, or pay down lender Art of Storytelling: Craft and tell a story from experience, not the shame of not knowing Frequency Illusion and Full Picture: To see it, it has to be relevant for anyone doing it The Challenge: With no resources, money, or food–get a real estate deal in 30 days Resources: Subto https://www.subto.com/ Pace Morby https://shor.by/gT0I Pace Morby on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pacemorby/?hl=en Pace Morby on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pacemorby/ Pace Morby on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/pacemorby Opendoor https://www.opendoor.com/ Zillow https://www.zillow.com/ Offerpad https://www.offerpad.com/ HomeVestors Franchise https://homevestorsfranchise.com/ HUD https://www.hud.gov/ Depreciation https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/depreciation.asp 1031 Exchange https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/fs-08-18.pdf Using Cost Segregation in Residential Real Estate https://andersonadvisors.com/using-cost-segregation-residential-real-estate/?highlight=cost%20segregation Charitable Contributions https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-contributions Outkast Mural https://wishatl.com/pages/thegallery Estate Planning - Living Trusts https://andersonadvisors.com/living_trusts/ Greg Boots https://www.amazon.com/Private-Vault-Gregory-J-Boots-ebook/dp/B00G71IKNA Brain Teaser: Can you count the Fs in this sentence? Finished Files https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/09/10/brain-exercise-brain-teaser/ Blue Crab Mentality https://www.developgoodhabits.com/crabs-bucket/ Toby Mathis https://andersonadvisors.com/tobymathis-2/ Anderson Advisors https://andersonadvisors.com/ Anderson Advisors Tax and Asset Protection Event https://andersonadvisors.com/asset-protection/ Anderson Advisors on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX5nh607M8hSBLiMB9MgbIQ
In this Filmmaker Series episode we cover attaching name talent to get funding, working with casting directors, and directing actors on set for both film & TV. From September 10, 2020. Guests: Kendra Castleberry is a Head CD at Castleberry/Murphy Casting. A TV, film and theatre enthusiast from a very young age, Kendra studied directing at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before making the move to Los Angeles. Past casting credits include Facebook Watch's Limetown, ABC's Take Two, CBS's Zoo, NBC's Grimm, ABC's Castle, CW's Star-Crossed, as well as numerous other series, pilots and TV movies. Kendra also has a passion for charity work; she is a big fundraiser for AIDS Walk Los Angeles and volunteers frequently around town. A proud member of the Casting Society of America, Kendra is a co-chair of the CSA Equity in Entertainment Committee. Rachel Feldman is a director and writer. This past season Rachel directed multiple episodes of BLUE BLOODS, CRIMINAL MINDS, THE ROOKIE and the pilot and first season of THE BAXTERS. She's in late development to direct LILLY, her feature screenplay, winner of The Athena List and The Ravenal Grant, based on the life of Fair Pay Icon Lilly Ledbetter. Her screenplay KINKS won the 2020 ScreenCraft and WGA Drama Queens Best Pilot Award. You can follow Rachel on Twitter @WomenCallAction Will Raee is an independent filmmaker and seasoned show producer. A native Californian, Will was born in Los Angeles, to Iranian parents who immigrated to America in 1960. Will's career has spanned a wide variety of genres and mediums. One of his first career moves was to start Rock Docs which begun him producing, and directing, music videos. During this time, he wrote and produced the critically acclaimed Marilyn Manson documentary Demystifying the Devil. Will soon produced SyFy Channel's Alien God's and helped launch, and Produced, the highly successful first season of the A&E Television's series Criss Angel MindFreak. After Mindfreak, Will jumped into the feature world and produced the motion pictures Honor, and The Exorcist Chronicles. On April 1st, 2007, Will joined forces with actor comedian Will Sasso to form Lord Mucker Entertainment, a company designed to create informal comedic feature films and television specials. They successfully produced their first comedic film For Christ Sake in July 2007. In 2008 Will became the producer and director for the Spike TV pilot 1000 Ways to Die. In 2016, Will wrote and directed the dark comedy Austin Found. The film starred Linda Cardellini, Craig Robinson, Skeet Ulrich, Kristen Schaal, Patrick Warburton, and Jaime Pressly. It was chosen as the closing night picture at Dances with Films and premiered at the Chinese Theater. Will also directed the child soldier themed short film Faith & Dreams, which won the IndieWire competition Shadows and Acts. From there he developed the script and feature film Girl Soldier, with Uma Thurman. Additionally, Will is developing a one-hour dramatic series with 3ARTS and BET, currently in pilot stage. Host: Jenn Page, Director / Producer Thank you to our sponsors Blackmagic Design & Sigma! To learn more about Blackmagic Collective and everything we offer and sign up for FREE visit http://blackmagiccollective.com Podcast Producer: Kayla Marie Coates, Actress / Filmmaker --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blackmagic-collective/message
Historien om en av världens genom tiderna största basketspelare, om våldtäktsanklagelsen och transformationen till en hel stads hjältefigur. Det är tidig morgon i januari 2020. En av världens mest kända basketspelare, Kobe Bryant och hans dotter Gianna sitter i en helikopter. Efter pensionen tillbringar han mer tid med sin familj, och framför allt med sin basketspelande dotter. Den här dagen är de på väg till hennes basketträning. Helikoptern lyfter från marken i den hårda vinden. En tjock dimma ligger Kalifornien. Under dem vaknar miljoner Los Angeles-bor upp till vilken söndag som helst. De som blickar upp har ingen aning om att det är deras stads hjälte - Kobe Bryant - som svävar ovanför. Ingen vet att det är hans sista resa i livet. Historien om Kobe Bryant handlar om resan till att bli en av världens bästa basketspelare. Om att stå anklagad för våldtäkt och om att födas på nytt som Black Mamba. Men framför allt: om att bli Los Angeles hjälte. En historia med ett tragiskt slut. Programledare: Vendela Lundberg Avsnittsförfattare: Mathilda von Essen Tekniker: Fredrik Nilsson Programmet är en produktion från produktionsbolaget OLGA I programmet hörs journalisterna Amat Levin och Filip Hammar. Ljudklippen är hämtade från: NBC News, ESPN, A&E Television, Dokumentären Musk, Intervjuer med Chick Hearn, Jimmy Kimmel, Kobe Bryant minnesceremoni, Space Jam, Dear Basketball och filmen Kill Bill.
Historien om en av världens genom tiderna största basketspelare, om våldtäktsanklagelsen och transformationen till en hel stads hjältefigur. Det är tidig morgon i januari 2020. En av världens mest kända basketspelare, Kobe Bryant och hans dotter Gianna sitter i en helikopter. Efter pensionen tillbringar han mer tid med sin familj, och framför allt med sin basketspelande dotter. Den här dagen är de på väg till hennes basketträning. Helikoptern lyfter från marken i den hårda vinden. En tjock dimma ligger Kalifornien. Under dem vaknar miljoner Los Angeles-bor upp till vilken söndag som helst. De som blickar upp har ingen aning om att det är deras stads hjälte - Kobe Bryant - som svävar ovanför. Ingen vet att det är hans sista resa i livet. Historien om Kobe Bryant handlar om resan till att bli en av världens bästa basketspelare. Om att stå anklagad för våldtäkt och om att födas på nytt som Black Mamba. Men framför allt: om att bli Los Angeles hjälte. En historia med ett tragiskt slut. Programledare: Vendela Lundberg Avsnittsförfattare: Mathilda von Essen Tekniker: Fredrik Nilsson Programmet är en produktion från produktionsbolaget OLGA I programmet hörs journalisterna Amat Levin och Filip Hammar. Ljudklippen är hämtade från: NBC News, ESPN, A&E Television, Dokumentären Musk, Intervjuer med Chick Hearn, Jimmy Kimmel, Kobe Bryant minnesceremoni, Space Jam, Dear Basketball och filmen Kill Bill.
This month host Dan Lucas, the Senior Director of Strategic Communication at US Chess, talks David MacEnulty, who was the first teacher to teach chess in New York City as part of the curriculum. MacEnulty has been teaching chess to adults and children for more than 25 years and has been one of the most impactful scholastic chess coaches in the USA over that period. He currently teaches chess at The Dalton School. He won the prestigious Chess Educator of the Year award from the University of Texas at Dallas in 2007, was honored with the career achievement and Scholastic Service awards by US Chess, and he received the Lives That Make a Difference award from A & E Television.
Enjoy the show? Subscribe to the channel for all our upcoming real estate investor interviews and episodes. In this episode I interview Dave Seymour, star of the hit A&E Television series "Flipping Boston". Dave brings a ton of value to the show through his many years as an investor and his huge personality so this is definitely an episode you won't want to miss! Join me as we learn about Dave's amazing career starting out as a paramedic / firefighter working three jobs to starring on his own hit A&E TV show, Flipping Boston. Dave is a seasoned real estate investor with great advice for investors of all experiences and strategies, so strap in, grab your pen and paper and enjoy the show.Want to connect? Reach out on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveseymour343/ ************************************************************************ GET INVOLVED, CONNECTED & GROW YOUR REAL ESTATE BUSINESS LEARN -- Want to learn the ins and outs of real estate investing? Check out our course at https://www.therealestateinvestingclub.com READ -- Want real estate book recommendations? Check out our list of the best books on real estate investing: https://gabepetersen.com/2020/06/14/best-books-on-real-estate-investing/ PARTNER -- Want to partner on a deal or connect in person? Email the host Gabe Petersen at gabe@therealestateinvestingclub.com or reach out on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabe-petersen/ CONNECT -- Want to join one of the most active Facebook Groups for Real Estate Investors? Click here to join: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2940993215976264 GROW -- Want for us to bring you leads and run your real estate digital marketing? Reach out to our partner agency at https://www.getclientsquick.com WATCH -- Want to watch our YouTube channel? Click here: https://bit.ly/theREIshow LISTEN -- Want to listen to our Podcast? Go here: https://therealestateinvestingclub.buzzsprout.com/ ************************************************************************ ABOUT THE REAL ESTATE INVESTING CLUB SHOW The Real Estate Investing Club is a podcast and YouTube show where real estate investing professionals share their best advice, greatest stories, and favorite tips in real estate. Join us as we delve into every aspect of real estate investing - from self-storage, to mobile home parks, to single family rentals, to real estate syndication! If you're a real estate investor and are looking for tips and motivation to grow your business, this is the show for you. This is an interview-based real estate show where I'll be hearing from investing pros from every asset class, niche and geographic area in the US. Join us as we learn about these REI pro's career peaks and valleys and the lessons they learned along the way! #realestateinvesting #passiveincome #realestateSupport the show (https://paypal.me/GabrielWPetersen?locale.x=en_US)
Gene and Randall explore the abilities of the late psychic Edgar Cayce with best-selling author Sidney D. Kirkpatrick. Cayce is referred to as "the sleeping prophet, the father of holistic medicine, and the most documented psychic of the 20th century." Sidney's books include "Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet." He is the only author to receive unrestricted access to the Edgar Cayce archives in Virginia Beach, and he and his wife Nancy have authored some 30 articles on "the Miracle Man of Virginia Beach" and have been editors of Venture Inward, the official magazine of Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment. Kirkpatrick has lectured at the Smithsonian, the National Archives, UCLA, and Edgar Mitchell's Institute of Noetic Science. HBO, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, A & E Television, NBC, and the BBC have all featured his work.
Neste Episódio: Com uma trajetória de mais de 25 anos no mercado Krishna, quase 7 meses foram na Discovery Networks nos Estados Unidos, onde participou de séries e documentários para todos os canais do grupo. De volta ao Brasil em 2007, atuou como produtora executiva da Mixer Films por 3 anos e fez títulos premiados no New York Festivals, Aurora Awars e outros. Durante oito anos (2010 a 2018), trabalhou no A&E Television, inicialmente, na produção executiva e depois assumiu a direção de conteúdo original dos quatros canais do grupo: History, A&E, Lifetime e H2. Desde 2016 comanda a Imprensa Mahon e também escreve para o Meio & Mensagem e Portal Comunique-se, aliás essas foram suas primeiras experiências no jornalismo escrito. Criadora do canal do Youtube Imprensa Mahon, formada em jornalismo e cinema pela PUC Minas e com curso de extensão em ficção científica pela Universidade de Michigan nos Estados Unidos. Krishna deu os primeiros passos na área em seu primeiro ano de faculdade, atuando como estagiária na Rede Minas, logo de cara se apaixonou pelo audiovisual e nunca mais largou. Hoje atua também como apresentadora da Band no SexPrivé. Nossas Redes: @krishnamahon @imprensamahon @rodadecinema @fabriciorinaldi @sullivan_thetacoach @deboradelta @salvadorcordarofotografia #rodadecinema #imprensamahon #krishnamahon #cineprive #sexprive #cinema #cinemabrasileiro #audiovisualbrasileiro #producaoexecutiva
O mundo da propaganda introduz o consumidor num universo imaginário estabelecendo seus próprios valores estéticos em busca da persuasão. Na batalha pela conquista de consumidores, a propaganda articula linguagens carregadas de diferentes apelos com uma única finalidade: seduzir o consumidor. O sexo está no consciente e no inconsciente dos indivíduos, é por isso que também é encontrado na mídia. O uso do sexo na propaganda não é recente. A utilização de tais apelos pelos publicitários pode ser considerado um reflexo da vida na sociedade. Participam desse episódio: Krishna Mahon - Graduada em jornalismo e cinema, com curso de extensão em ficção científica pela Universidade de Michigan (EUA). Já passou por Rede Minas, Discovery, Mixer Films. Fez parte da equipe da A&E Television, onde foi produtora executiva e diretora de conteúdo original dos quatro canais da empresa: History, A&E, Lifetime e H2 e, atualmente, cuida da estratégia de conteúdos pagos da Band e apresenta o Cine Privé. Também é criadora do canal do YouTube “Imprensa Mahon”, onde, desde 2016, fala sobre assuntos do setor audiovisual. Andrea Siqueira: é Diretora de Criação Executiva da BETC/Havas. Antes da BETC, foi Diretora de Criação Executiva Isobar, da Dentsu Aegis Network. Ao longo de sua carreira teve experiências em agências digitais e offline, liderando times nacionais e internacionalmente. Também foi Diretora de criação na JWT, redatora na DM9 e acumulou 9 Leões em Cannes, prêmios no D&AD, Clio, NY Festivals, Fiap e todos os prêmios nacionais. Para completar em 2019 ganhou o Prêmio Caboré como profissional de criação. Dr. Bernado Rahe – Graduado em Medicina pela Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). Professor de Psiquiatria do Curso de Medicina da Faculdade Santa Marcelina (FASM). Especialista em Psiquiatria pela Associação Brasileira de Psiquiatria (ABP) e Associação Médica Brasileira (AMB). Apresentado por Alexandre Luppi, Silvio Soledade, José Maurício e Adão Casares. Produção, montagem e distribuição: Compasso Coolab
www.chrisgriggscomedy.com Chris is an actor and comedian that currently lives in New York by way of Memphis. He was a regular host for TV Land’s “Prime Movies” and has made appearances on NBC’s “Blacklist”, Bravo, IFC, E Television, Hulu’s “Comedy Time TV", Netflix, Starz and The Discovery Channel. He also was selected to represent New York on the TV show “World Cup Comedy” produced by Kelsey Grammar. Chris has been featured in the films “The Co-Exist Comedy tour,” “Twenty Million People” “The Best Man” and “Generation Iron 2”. He’s a regular standup around New York and you can catch him on Saturday nights at 8pm with the PIT’s weekend house team The Baldwins.
www.chrisgriggscomedy.com Chris is an actor and comedian that currently lives in New York by way of Memphis. He was a regular host for TV Land’s “Prime Movies” and has made appearances on NBC’s “Blacklist”, Bravo, IFC, E Television, Hulu’s “Comedy Time TV", Netflix, Starz and The Discovery Channel. He also was selected to represent New York on the TV show “World Cup Comedy” produced by Kelsey Grammar. Chris has been featured in the films “The Co-Exist Comedy tour,” “Twenty Million People” “The Best Man” and “Generation Iron 2”. He’s a regular standup around New York and you can catch him on Saturday nights at 8pm with the PIT’s weekend house team The Baldwins.
ALYCE EMORY studied sociology at Georgia State University before settling in New York City. She has successfully managed marketing and event production for clients including HBO, A&E Television, Urbanworld Film Festival, The Apollo Theater, Circle of Life Celebration-Pride Memorial, Third Wave Foundation, UNESCO and others. She has served on committees for the NYC Community Board’s LGBTQ Town Hall, NYC Black Pride and as a member of Harlem Pride’s Founding Advisory Board. Alyce is a member of the African Atlantic Research Team of Michigan State University and presented with the team at the Association for Worldwide African Diaspora Conference. She also serves on the Health & Wellness and Economic Development Committees of North Manhattan Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.., Black and Latino LGBTQ Coalition, and Kitchen Table Giving Circle. She also advises African Ancestral Lesbians United for Societal Change. With fellow New York activist Kim Ford, She co-founded Beyond Bold and Brave a conference to address the marginalization of Black/African Descent lesbians with few public spaces dedicated to addressing issues unique to them. Beyond Bold and Brave Conferences have taken place at Barnard College in 2016, 2018 and will take place again in 2020. The theme of the 2020 conference will be Revolutionary Wellness.
Joumana Kidd is an actress and journalist and former wife of retired NBA basketball star Jason Kidd. She has hosted shows for NBA television, E Television’s Extra, and has covered various Red carpet events including The Grammys and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies. After a very public divorce, Joumana was invited as a guest analyst on a variety of news programs and morning shows. Joumana co-stars in the VH1 Reality Series “Let's Talk About Pep.” She also appeared multiple times on Bethenny as a guest commentator and had her own show on NET TV (Catholic Cable TV Network) called Women on Women (WOW). She currently lives in Southern California with her children. Joumana is known in social circles as “the husband whisperer,” helping other women and couples in their relationships, offering spiritual and practical advice.
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For 5 months the murderer known only as the Hillside Strangler terrorized Los Angeles California, then the killing suddenly stopped....or did it? I believe the man in the front is either Frank Salerno or Bob Sager who I speak alot about in the show Its hard for me to post pictures of the murders, their faces were plastered on every news site for months, the victims are far more important, this photo includes Karen and Diane from Washington. Angelo Bueno and Kenneth Bianchi A photo I believe to be Veronica, the women who fell in love with the murderer, so much in love she would kill for him. For more information on Veronica, I found a link to an interview she did with Dr Oz. I can't feel bad for her, drugs or no drugs, what's your thoughts? https://www.doctoroz.com/video-series/best-true-crime-tuesday?video_id=5330258668001 Copy and paste into your browser None of the photos on this page belong to Haunting History Podcast. No copyright infringement intended and are only used as enhancements to the story told. At times when reporting facts regarding a true crime, (and photos) multiple sources use the same wording. Every effort is made to avoid any copyright infringements and no single work was intentionally plagiarized when reporting the facts of the crimes. Below is a list of resources used during the research and telling of this story. (partial) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillside_Strangler "'Hillside Strangler' dies in prison". cnn.com. Vronsky, Peter (2004). Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. p. 187. ISBN 0-425-19640-2. Bardsley, Marilyn. "The Rampage Begins". Crime Library.. "After he murders two Bellingham women, police arrest serial killer Kenneth A. Bianchi on January 12, 1979". historylink.org. Bardsley, Marilyn. "Killing Cousins". Crime Library. Bardsley, Marilyn. "Early Victims". Crime Library. Vronsky, Peter (2004). Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. p. 188. ISBN 0-425-19640-2. "Peter Lorre's daughter was near-victim of Hillside Strangler". Lakeland Ledger. November 17, 1979. Vronsky, Peter (2004). Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters. p. 191. ISBN 0-425-19640-2. Bardsley, Marilyn. "Two Killers". Crime Library. Bardsley, Marilyn. "The 'Hillside Strangler'". Crime Library. Bardsley, Marilyn. "A Witness". Crime Library. Bardsley, Marilyn. "Three More". Crime Library. Bachmann, Patrick (Writer/Producer) (1997). The Hillside Stranglers (television production). A&E Television. ^ King, Gary C. "The Hillside Strangler: Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi." Investigation Discovery. https://allthatsinteresting.com/hillside-strangler-kenneth-bianchi-angelo-buono https://www.crimemuseum.org/crime-library/serial-killers/the-hillside-strangler/ https://listverse.com/2018/10/03/10-twisted-facts-about-the-hillside-strangler/ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-hillside-stranglers https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/kenneth-bianchi https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-sep-22-me-hillside22-story.html https://people.com/crime/the-cop-who-caught-the-hillside-stranglers-speaks-out-40-years-later-i-still-ghttps://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/crime-history/a-look-back-hillside-strangler-serial-killer-angelo-buono-dies-in-prisonet-emotional/ https://www.thoughtco.com/angelo-buono-the-hillside-strangler-973111 https://criminalminds.fandom.com/wiki/Angehttps://www.upi.com/Archives/1984/01/10/The-Hillside-Strangler-case-the-longest-criminal-trial-in/1461442558800/lo_Buono_and_Kenneth_Bianchi https://www.nytimes.
Meghan Kirsch is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Creative at Viceland. Before Viceland, she worked at A&E Television in their creative and marketing department for over ten years. She is a passionate and inspiring leader who encourages creative risk-tasking and nurtures and motivates large teams to defy the odds on a daily basis. She has extensive experience in building brands, best-in-class marketing campaigns, persuasive and inspired creative communication, quality short-form content, and unforgettable brand experiences that drive maximum impact and results. On this episode, we talk with Meghan about how Viceland launched and how it has evolved, how to balance and diversify different platforms, and how to make the most out of branded content. FOLLOW THE GUEST, Meghan Kirsch: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-kirsch-5679b01/ FOLLOW THE HOST, David Brickley: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidjBrickley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrickley/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6yZbmTvJfjY8h79Wpm49Zw LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brickley/ FOLLOW THE SHOW: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BizOfSocial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizofsocial/ An STN Digital Production STN is a Social Media Marketing Agency trusted by the largest Sports & Entertainment properties in the world. https://stndigital.com FOLLOW STN DIGITAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNDigital/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stndigital/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNDigital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stn-digital/
Meghan Kirsch is the Senior Vice President of Marketing and Creative at Viceland. Before Viceland, she worked at A&E Television in their creative and marketing department for over ten years. She is a passionate and inspiring leader who encourages creative risk-tasking and nurtures and motivates large teams to defy the odds on a daily basis. She has extensive experience in building brands, best-in-class marketing campaigns, persuasive and inspired creative communication, quality short-form content, and unforgettable brand experiences that drive maximum impact and results. On this episode, we talk with Meghan about how Viceland launched and how it has evolved, how to balance and diversify different platforms, and how to make the most out of branded content. FOLLOW THE GUEST, Meghan Kirsch: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meghan-kirsch-5679b01/ FOLLOW THE HOST, David Brickley: Twitter: https://twitter.com/DavidjBrickley Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidjbrickley/ YouTube: www.youtube.com/channel/UC6yZbmTvJfjY8h79Wpm49Zw LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/brickley/ FOLLOW THE SHOW: Twitter: https://twitter.com/BizOfSocial Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bizofsocial/ An STN Digital Production STN is a Social Media Marketing Agency trusted by the largest Sports & Entertainment properties in the world. https://stndigital.com FOLLOW STN DIGITAL: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/STNDigital/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stndigital/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/STNDigital LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/stn-digital/
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Today’s episode is with herbalist and author Ellen Evert Hopman. She's going to teach us all about the Doctrine of Signatures. This class was taught at the 2017 New England Women’s Herbal Gathering in New Hampshire. Learn an ancient plant classification system that was developed in a time before most people could read. Did the plant grow in sun or shade? In damp soil or in a dry area? The shape of a leaf, the color of a 9 flower, the taste of an herb were all guides to which body system or organ the plant was appropriate for. Although you'll learn a lot in this episode, you should look into her book: Secret Medicines from Your Garden - Plants for Healing, Spirituality and Magic She covers the Doctrine of Signatures along with a lot of other herbal and magical concepts. To find out more about Ellen, you can visit her online at elleneverthopman.com. Thanks Ellen for sharing this class with us! Hopman is the author of a number of books and has been a teacher of Herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990. She has presented on Druidism, herbal lore, tree lore, Paganism and magic at conferences, festivals, and events in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and in the United States. She has participated in numerous radio and television programs including National Public Radio’s “Vox Pop” and the Gary Null show in New York. She presented a weekly “herb report” for WRSI radio out of Greenfield, MA for over a year and was a featured subject in a documentary about Druids on A&E Television’s; “The Unexplained” (Secret Societies, February 1999). She is a Master Herbalist and professional member of the American Herbalists Guild (AHG) and lay Homeopath who holds an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling. She is a founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile) and its former Co-Chief, a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, and a Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana. She is currently ArchDruid of Tribe of the Oak, an international Druid teaching Order based in New England, USA. She was Vice President of The Henge of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years and has been at times a member of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF).
A singer/songwriter who just released a new single, she plays guitar and piano. Her songwriting and production credits include Selena Gomez, Kelly Clarkson, and Jason Derulo, among others. She is signed to a publishing deal and has also been a performer and co-writer on music heard on A&E Television’s “Born This Way.” Among other topics, she talks about recording in Nashville despite living in Los Angeles, and a new music video that she’ll be shooting this month.
On this episode, Dr.G is joined by Michael Cascio – an award-winning documentary producer and storyteller. As a former Executive Producer with National Geographic, A&E, Animal Planet, and many other mainstream media outlets, Michael has helped produce some of the world’s most iconic shows including Brain Games, Biography, Dog Whisperer, Crocodile Hunter, Inside 9/11, Breakthrough, and numerous others. Having branched out on his own, he now serves as an in-high-demand advisor to major media companies by helping them navigate the uncertain and rapidly evolving world of film & entertainment. In this rare interview, Michael gives us an exclusive insider’s view into the changes disrupting the media industry, he shares with us his signature storytelling approach to producing award-winning documentaries, and how his first job as a janitor at Wolf Trap helped define his perspectives that forever shaped his career. All this and more on today’s episode. Now, That’s Unusual. About Michael Cascio Michael Casio is the CEO, President and Executive Producer of M+C Media, LLC, a production company that does consulting for networks and producers as well as original documentary production. Their latest project is the independent film Munich ’72 and Beyond, a documentary that investigates the first incidence of modern terrorism at the Summer Games in Munich, Germany. Cascio began his career in broadcast journalism as a reporter, news director and producer for local stations in Delaware and Philadelphia. He then shifted his focus to cable networks, jumping to A&E Television where he became the senior vice-president of programming and developed the acclaimed Biography series. His impressive resume also includes VP of Cable Programming for NBC News, EVP and GM at Animal Planet, and EVP of Programming for the National Geographic Channel. In the course of his career, Cascio has been nominated for two Oscars and won four Emmys as well as the prestigious “Producer of the Year” award. Cascio earned an undergraduate degree in liberal arts from the University of Virginia and his Master’s in Communication from American University. Key Interview Takeaways The greatest lessons might come from unexpected experiences. Working as a janitor at the Wolf Trap outdoor theatre, Cascio got an education the working world. While picking up trash, he learned the importance of speaking up (service workers are often invisible otherwise) and reserving judgment based on appearance (a scruffy janitor might engage a world-class conductor in conversation about a classical piece). In fact, the best career advice Cascio ever received was from his supervisor at the Wolf Trap: Never turn down a chance to take on more responsibility. While the viewers’ motivation to consume media remains the same, the digital revolution is changing the rules in terms of form and content creation. People are still attracted to compelling characters and a desire to learn, but the evolution of media now allows us to consume content anytime, anywhere – and that content might be user-generated. As augmented reality increases in popularity, programming must have a plan in place for digital or VR (virtual reality) applications to complement the traditional broadcast. Travel and history shows lend themselves to VR, but we have only begun to explore what is possible in the realm of augmented reality. Learn More About Michael Cascio linkedin.com mandcmedia.com References New York Times article: “Pearls of Career Wisdom, Found in the Trash” by Michael Cascio Trailer and additional information: Munich ’72 and Beyond
Hopman is the author of a number of books and has been a teacher of Herbalism since 1983 and of Druidism since 1990. Her newest book is "Secret Medicines from Your Garden." She is a professional member of the American Herbalists Guild and has presented on Druidism, herbal lore, tree lore, Paganism and magic at conferences, festivals, and events in Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, and in the United States. She has participated in numerous radio and television programs including National Public Radio's "Vox Pop" and the Gary Null show in New York. She presented a weekly "herb report" for WRSI radio out of Greenfield, MA for over a year and was a featured subject in a documentary about Druids on A&E Television's; "The Unexplained" (Secret Societies, February 1999). She is a Master Herbalist and lay Homeopath who holds an M.Ed. in Mental Health Counseling . She is the Archdruid of Tribe of the Oak (www.tribeoftheoak.com) and is a founding member of The Order of the White Oak (Ord Na Darach Gile, www.whiteoakdruids.org) and its former Co-Chief, a Bard of the Gorsedd of Caer Abiri, and a Druidess of the Druid Clan of Dana. She was Vice President of The Henge of Keltria, an international Druid Fellowship, for nine years and has been at times a member of The Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and Ár nDraíocht Féin: A Druid Fellowship (ADF). Visit her bookstore and blog at http://www.elleneverthopman.com The show starts with Anastasia's Starseed News, bringing topics of interest to starseeds! Thanks for tuning in!
The point of this series is to start a conversation about how those of us diagnosed with psychotic disorders get people to believe our truths. After all, once you've been diagnosed as being psychotic, your credibility is never the same, even when you're speaking the truth. I have a podcast on iTunes in which I reveal a lot about myself, and lately I've noticed how much these podcasts have been teaching me about myself and what I've lost. This illness has taken a great deal from me, including my ability to gain recognition for my accomplishments. So, what I'd like to do here is recognize some of these accomplishments, knowing that had my life been different, they could have been acknowledged in a more public arena. Knowing, too, that, because I have schizoaffective disorder that is characterized by delusional thinking, hallucinations, and mood fluctuations, even when I speak the truth, I am often dismissed and not believed, with my truths described as mere delusions. I want to acknowledge my accomplishments not only for myself but also for all you out there. Those of you who may or may not already be diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or any other serious mental condition, whose truths, like mine, are so frequently dismissed as delusions. It upsets me even to write this, to realize that those around me can—and do—categorize what I say as delusional, and I wonder if that also happens to you. I'd like to begin by briefly mentioning that I was diagnosed with Tourette's at the age of 12, although, according to my mother, I had shown symptoms since I was two. I sometimes wonder whether I was even then showing signs of the psychosis that has plagued me for my entire adult life. I was 18 when I had my first psychotic episode. It was Christmas Day, 1994. I was living in New York City and was admitted to Beth Israel, where I was given a number of tests—medical and psychological. My toxicology report came up 100% clean, a clear indication that my psychosis was not drug-induced. My intake report by the ER doctor shows that I had a “loosening of association” and “pressured speech,” both of which can indicate schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder with psychotic features. No wonder it took so long for me to get the right diagnosis; so many of the symptoms overlap. However, I want to bring this back to delusion and truth, and how people so frequently label your truths as delusional as soon as you've been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. I will also discuss my condition's genesis and prognosis—and then move onto those accomplishments for which I've never been truly recognized. I often wonder if other people, like me, have trouble being believed. As I may have mentioned already, serious mental illness, such as schizoaffective disorder, is believed to be caused first by a genetic predisposition to develop mental illness and second by environmental factors. In my family, I have a grandfather who seems to have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to old medical records that I recently found. In addition, I have two second cousins, both of whom have been publicly diagnosed with mental illness. So, I would definitely seem to be genetically predisposed to becoming mentally ill. However, having this predisposition isn't enough. You also need certain environmental factors. What I've read in some of the literature is that mental illness can be compared to diabetes. A person may be genetically predisposed to develop diabetes, but if that person gets enough exercise and watches their sugar intake, then the diabetes may never take hold—it's the same with mental illness. In my case, I had the predisposition, but I also underwent enough traumas (sexual, physical, and emotional abuse) and upheavals (such as my parents' divorce when I was young) for the illness to take hold. Boy, did it take hold. Sometimes, though, people like my sister, who has a genetic predisposition plus environmental factors (my sister comes from the same family and has had the same kind of upheavals), do not become mentally ill. Nobody knows why. Maybe, as my wife says, it's just the luck of the draw. She's kidding. At least about the luck part, because having mental illness isn't lucky, although we do have to keep laughing about it. Keep positive. You're never alone if you can laugh with someone about it. As I've mentioned, I have schizoaffective disorder. Originally, though, I was diagnosed with depression. That was back in 1994, when I was 18. Over the next 10 years or so, I saw doctor after doctor, moving here and there, trying to find my place in the world. I made seven suicide attempts and had years of alcohol and drug abuse issues. My last suicide attempt was in 2001, and I was freed from my drug and alcohol addictions in early 2003. More than 11 years ago. As I was getting off the drugs, I saw a doctor who diagnosed me with schizoaffective disorder, which basically means schizophrenia with a mood disorder thrown in, and, in my case, that mood disorder is bipolar with manic features. However, in 2005 and 2006 I saw a doctor who said that I did not have schizoaffective disorder. Instead, I had a personality disorder. The point is that getting the right diagnosis can be time-consuming and frustrating, but it is also necessary, as once I was “re- diagnosed” with schizoaffective disorder, I was able to get on the right medication. But that's a different story altogether. I'm focusing here on being diagnosed with any type of mental illness that includes psychotic features that then make it almost impossible for people around you to believe your truths. However, not only do I have the double whammy of a thought disorder coupled with a mood disorder, I also have Tourette's syndrome, which is considered severe since this usually tapers off in one's 20s but mine did not. I'm 39 now, so, along with the confusion I suffer and the mood fluctuations, I also tic and sometimes engage in coprolalia, which is involuntary swearing or yelling out racial epithets. Hard combination. Added to that mix, I also seem to have aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder—I have to keep my computer arranged ‘just so'; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)—I frequently relive earlier traumas; attention deficit disorder—I can't focus on anything for any period of time; autism or Asperger's—like Temple Grandin, I may be smart, but I can't read social cues at all. Makes it difficult to hang out and just be “one of the guys.”My current psychiatrist, Dr. C, who—unlike others—never hesitated to diagnose me, saw me when I was at my worst. I was in the middle of a psychotic episode. I was in the process of a divorce (my wife and I have since reconciled), and I had no money, as my family had cut me off from my trust income. In the past, too many doctors had seen me when I did have money and was able to hire people to do what I could not—for example shopping, driving, and cleaning. Because these doctors saw me when I could hire people, they all considered me to be “too high functioning” to have any form of schizophrenia. As a result of being considered “high functioning,” I was diagnosed for years as having a personality disorder. Some doctors thought I had borderline personality disorder (BPD); others thought I had a personality disorder not otherwise specified (NOS). Let me tell you, having the right diagnosis has turned things around at last. I'm now on the right medication. My wife and caregivers understand the nature of the illness and know some excellent ways of dealing with it and with me. Although the illness will never go away, I do have hope that I'll continue to get the right treatment and that my life will continue to get better. Now, the big one: What do you do when people assume your truths are delusions? Let's start with just a little bit more background. At the last count, I have had approximately 30 rehab stints and/or hospitalizations. That's a lot. When you're hospitalized, especially involuntarily, people tend to dismiss everything you say as a symptom of your illness. I understand that, but I don't like it, because it's hard when people don't believe you. A couple of examples. I moved to Los Angeles in January 2001 because I wanted to be a Hollywood screenwriter. I was two days shy of my 25th birthday. I was a go-getter back then, a social butterfly, and found it easy to introduce myself to just about anyone. As a result, I met Joanna Cassidy, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson, and others. Then, as my drug and alcohol use spiraled out of control, I got myself into rehab. Since I had access to my trust fund, I could afford the rehab facilities where “celebrities” went, places such as Promises in Malibu. In these places, I met movie producers, writers, actors, musicians, and kids of celebrities. The point is, I met all these people, and some of them I befriended. Because so many of the rehab facilities didn't help me stay off drugs and alcohol, a friend and I started our own facility, Wavelengths, which also catered to celebrities. Wavelengths took a more proactive approach to getting people off drugs and alcohol. If you ever saw the show The Cleaner, you'll have a better idea of what I mean by “proactive.” In fact, that show was based on the friend with whom I started Wavelengths, and, although I was never credited, I was the co-creator of the show. But now, when I tell people about The Cleaner or knowing Chuck Lorre, Robert Downey Jr., or Mel Gibson, they smile blankly, nod their head, and dismiss what I say as a delusion. That's maddening—if you'll pardon the pun. Another example. In the summer of 2010, I checked myself into a facility in Colorado so I could get on the right meds and try to get myself re-stabilized. As I was being admitted as a patient with schizoaffective disorder, which is characterized by a thought disorder, including delusions, both my wife and my doctor spoke with the facility before I was admitted so that the doctors and social workers would know I wasn't delusional about the people I knew. My wife and doctor also let the facility know about my financial background, because I don't always look “rich.” Lately, I like to dress in t-shirts and pajama bottoms. I like to keep my hair permed and wild, and I like to wear a beard. As a result, sometimes when I'm admitted, the staff person will write that I'm a little unkempt, and when I then start talking about the money I'm worth, the same staff person will flash a little, tight smile as if to say: “Of course, you are. And I have a Swiss bank account.” Those staff people don't always know that I can “tell” what they're thinking—I can see it on their faces—, and they feel free to openly doubt my truth. More on “delusions.” The reason I write is to share my story, and sometimes—I've got to admit—it's hard knowing that a lot of people may not believe me. I bring this up because I'm sure that those of you who read what I write must have as complicated a story as mine. I am just spelling out some things—kind of “straight-from-the-heart” sharing with you all. My family, as I've mentioned, is rich and powerful. Maybe your family is not rich or powerful, but still I think you'll understand. Their money and their power helped make me who I am, just as your parents helped make you who you are. I'm not attacking anyone. I am simply telling the story of my life. I have earned the right to do that. Come to think of it, though, maybe I never did have to “earn the right” to tell the story of my life. People have a right to their own stories and to tell these stories in their own voice, not anybody else's. This is my time. My story. Not my family's. And I owe it to you to share a taste of the complexity of my life, so you'll understand the complexity of your own. So, yes, my family is rich and powerful. That is not a delusion. You can look them up yourself. They are public people. Sometimes I think that because they are public people, they have had a hard time accepting me for who I am. I know they have had a hard time accepting my diagnosis. And, really, I am not attacking them. Maybe they can't accept my diagnosis because they think it will reflect badly on them. I haven't talked to my family in a few years. I wish I felt sad about that, but I can't. My family doesn't love me. Sometimes I think they might even hate me, because they cut off my money and they cut off contact with me. But I'm getting sidetracked—what my wife calls “going off on a tangent.” So I'll stop. One area that has always been hard and that created a lot of misunderstanding in my family is my diagnosis. No one has ever accepted that I had the wrong diagnosis for years and that getting the right diagnosis has helped me move forward. Not that a diagnosis makes the illness easy, and, in many respects, a diagnosis is nothing but a label. However, with the right diagnosis (or label), you can get the right medication, the right therapy, and people—like caregivers—who know how to deal with you. The right diagnosis is a starting point that means you can read about whatever “label” you have been tagged with—or might need to be tagged with. In my case, I was “tagged with” BPD for years. On the one hand, that wasn't such a bad diagnosis, because people wouldn't then label me as being delusional. On the other hand, when people thought I had BPD, they accused me of lying, which brings me back to my family. In the past, my family has told me to “snap out of it” and to “get my act together”—that I would then be “fine.” You can't “snap out” of schizophrenia. You may get the symptoms under control, and you may even, like John Nash, seem to recover from the disorder, but you don't—and can't—“snap out of it.” My family, believing that I was capable of getting my act together, created a lot of tension between us. I use the past tense here because I don't know if they now believe my diagnosis. As I've mentioned, we've had no contact since January 2010, so I don't know what they believe. In January of that year, my family cut me off and stripped me of any help. I had no gardeners and no driver (I no longer drive). I had nothing. Based on what they wrote to me at the time, they seemed to think that they should provide a little “tough love” (like you see on Intervention) and that I would then agree to get better. I was never not agreeing to get better. Believe me, it's no fun having schizoaffective disorder. If your family or loved ones already believe your diagnosis, you are that much farther ahead because, if they believe the diagnosis, they can help. I'm taking my own advice today and staying positive. I think of all I have lost, and I can get very depressed. At one time, I had editors, housekeepers, free travel, a huge inheritance, my trust funds, and lavish cars. I've been to the best schools in the country. I had public-figure parents and several celebrities in my extended family, some of whom had actually, quite publicly, been diagnosed with mental illnesses. When I compare what I once had to what I now have, I can get depressed. I focus on the past and fail to appreciate the present. Taking my own advice to stay positive, I have three dogs, seven cats, and one bird. Now, some people might not think having so many animals is so positive, but I like walking through the house and every time being followed by at least one of them. My animals are one positive. Another positive. I no longer have diabetes. I have lost so much weight that my blood sugar is normal. I still take one of the diabetic meds because it can prevent diabetes—and also because my other meds can cause diabetes. But I am healthier than I was. No diabetes is another positive. My wife is the third positive. We reconciled two years ago, and so far we are working things out and trying to help each other. My work is the fourth positive. The schizoaffective disorder has really affected my thinking and my emotions, but it hasn't touched my creativity. I podcast, I write a journal, and I make music and movies. I have even sold a couple of songs on iTunes. My memories are the fifth and final positive for today. Although my father and I had a falling out in 2009, that's his issue. He and I have had great, absolutely fantastic, times together, and I treasure the memories. When I focus only on these memories, I can stay positive. For many reasons, I have had quite a few psychiatrists over the years. My current doctor—whom I call Dr. C—is the one that most recently diagnosed me as having schizoaffective disorder. When I went to see her the second or third time, I brought along five bookshelves' worth of my journals. My diaries. All my written documentation of madness—the faxes and emails that proved that 1,000 hours of film that I had shot had been stolen. That's it. I can't do anything about it. I have proof of a software development proposal I made when I was 15. I received a scholarship to business school, honors, and recognition. I was like John Nash except I was proposing software, not math. What I proposed would have been the first online shopping interface. But it got taken away, like everything. I have the proof, the actual documents. Real. These truths are mine. And I have schizophrenia, and I even have delusions, but I know, and my wife knows, and my close friends know, that these truths are real—not delusions. I spent three years of my life developing a show for A&E Television. I have the proof. I save everything. Faxes to the producers. My point is that I have lived an incredible life and often, all too often, facts become so-called delusions to others, especially to those others who actually count, like medical professionals. And it matters to me. All of this really matters to me. It means something very special to me because it is about me. It is from my perspective and only my perspective—the only perspective I know for sure. It's part of my story, or, as some might consider it, the “myth of that stupid Jonathan kid.” I know who I am. And I think I know who my friends are. I know that I am a legitimate, loving, grateful and spiritual human being who deserves to be loved and accepted and who deserves to make decisions, to make mistakes, and to be forgiven—to be myself. The real me. The Jonathan Harnisch who is not alone—who is loved. The Jonathan whose moods and behaviors might be a bit difficult to predict. A guy. A citizen, with schizophrenia and a full spectrum of mental maladies, who believes in some kind of higher power—who believes in himself. Who tries, tries, and tries—who never gives up on, or even thinks of giving up on, resilience. Who struggles every single day as an adult that is still being abused. Who has been abandoned and treated like waste—a mistake. Who is manipulated. Jonathan Harnisch. A teacher and a student. A rich kid who used to ride up front with his limousine driver. Who used to be a real asshole, often due to his drinking and drugging—and to his mimicking what he saw growing up among people who should have acted better but who just didn't know how to protect him. I have been in therapy since I was 9, and from the age of 12 I was “put away” on far too many medications, some of which I am still physically addicted to, some of which caused me to gain weight and to develop tardive dyskinesia (chronic muscle stiffness), and some of which I was actually allergic to, causing me to rage and even increasing my tendency to drink alcohol. I chose what I did, regardless what the literature suggests or what certain medical studies indicate. I am who I am, and I have my own story—my own version of my own story. It changes and adjusts on a constant basis. I've been closed up for so long. I am opening up. I am not being inappropriate. I don't need to be judged. But I will be judged. I don't need to worry about what others think of me. But I actually do care what other people think of me. I can't control other people. Come to think of it, I can't control what thoughts come into my head, just as I can't control which ones leave. So how can I control other people or their thoughts? How can anybody control the galaxy? How about the billions upon billions of existing galaxies or the billions of galaxies that have not yet even been discovered? That is what we are living with—within. Even Jesus experienced the full gamut of the human emotion spectrum, having been so-called spirit in human form. He was killed for that, for being who he was—for being honest and sincere, and, essentially, for being real. His life was far from easy. The most enlightened beings in the history of mankind—Buddha, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Krishna, and the Dalai Lama—have struggled and suffered every single day of their lives. And they too, in a way, live within us all. I want to let you know that you are not alone. You will never, ever be alone. I am excited and determined to come to you, who are seeking . . . seeking something. Maybe you're just reading as you sit there at work, or maybe you're my family, checking to see how I am, if I'm “misbehaving.” What I am is a disabled and, yes, a very troubled adult. But I am allowed to share my story. My life. I am safe. Now, I laugh now when I say this, but my wife is 24 years older than I am. And if and when she passes away before I do, or for any reason leaves me (I doubt she will—we seem to be doing very well together), I worry that I will be forced into a psychiatric institution back east, back near my family, when we don't even talk. I worry that it's inevitable. I guess, in conclusion, my life is full of grandiosity. But I still have schizophrenia, and I still have people who seem to have a need to control me and yet want nothing to do with me. This fascinates me. Why do they still want that much to do with me? Somebody who happens to also be a staff writer for a local news magazine independently wrote the following about me, which I have included on my website. It makes me feel so good. See! Things can change.Envision a blend of a mentally ill mind with unsurpassed resiliency and fiery intellect and your result would be the brilliant Jonathan Harnisch. An all-around artist, Jonathan writes fiction and screenplays, sketches, imagines, and creates. His most recent artistic endeavor is developing music, a newfound passion with visible and of course audible results already in the making. Produced filmmaker and published erotica author, Jonathan holds myriad accolades, and his works captivate the attention of those who experience it. Manic-toned scripts with parallel lives, masochistic tendencies in sexual escapades, and disturbing clarities embellished with addiction, fetish, lust, and love, are just a taste of themes found in Jonathan's transgressive literature. Conversely, his award-winning films capture the ironies of life, love, self-acceptance, tragedy, and fantasy. Jonathan's art evokes laughter and shock, elation and sadness, but overall forces you to step back and question your own version of reality. Scripts, screenplays, and schizophrenia are defining factors of Jonathan's life and reality—but surface labels are often incomplete. Jonathan is diagnosed with several mental illnesses from schizoaffective disorder to Tourette's syndrome; playfully, he dubs himself the “King of Mental Illness.” Despite daily symptomatic struggles and thoughts, Jonathan radiates an authentic, effervescent, and loving spirit. His resiliency emanates from the greatest lesson he's learned: laughter. His diagnoses and life experiences encourage him to laugh at reality as others see it. Wildly eccentric, open-minded, passionate, and driven, Jonathan has a feral imagination. His inherent traits transpose to his art, making his works some of the most original and thought provoking of modern day. Jonathan is an alumnus of Choate Rosemary Hall. Subsequently, he attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied film production and screenwriting under Gary Winick and David Irving. During his studies at NYU, he held internships under renowned producers Steven Haft and Ismail Merchant. He is best known for his short films, On the Bus and Wax, both of which boast countless awards including five Indie Film Awards, three Accolade Awards, and Ten Years won, which won the Best Short Film and Audience Award in the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, to name a few. Despite his impressive formal education and awarded honors, Jonathan is your normal, down-to-earth guy. Meditation, Duran Duran, vivid colors, Patrick Nagel prints, and rearranging furniture are some of his favorite things. Vices include cigarettes, Diet Coke, inappropriate swearing, and sausage and green chili pizza. He enjoys irony, planned spontaneity, redefining himself, and change. Jonathan lives with his beautiful wife, their three dogs and seven cats, in the unique, desert village of Corrales, New Mexico. What follows gives a glimpse into how I have been putting together some of the pieces of the otherwise “shattered stained glass” of schizophrenia, as I see it—from what I have read and heard and just . . . believe. My psychiatrist has often asked me to describe or explain my symptoms, and thus schizophrenia, and I usually do not know how to do so. I simply reply that it is all “indescribable.” Since then, I have been looking deeper into myself so that I am able, at minimum, to summarize at least a few of my experiences, past and present, in order to share with you too some of the complexity—demystified. I'd like to share some of my discoveries, as I find them, concerning my experiences, false perceptions, and schizophrenic psychosis. Hopefully, I'll succeed in maintaining simplicity so that others can benefit and perhaps understand this otherwise extremely complex disorder. I have come to realize that thanks to my own self, my lovely wife (whom I've known for over six years now), my support team (medical doctors and friends), and even those who might be considered my enemies, I have been helped along the path to self-actualization and thus to self-understanding—to where I find myself today. I've been able to find some meaning in schizophrenia, which helps me redefine how I see myself and how the symptoms of schizophrenia came to be—so that I can describe these without simply dismissing them as “indescribable.” Please forgive any terminology I might use incorrectly, as I am not a doctor. Also, I do have schizophrenia, so although I have stabilized (recovered, not been cured), I must still admit that I might get it wrong sometimes. We schizophrenics, through our psychosis—our delusions, our hallucinations, or reality—create or develop a story, a storyline. What is real has many universal implications. Many are extremely personal, symbolic, and moral. As we build the framework of our delusional reality, which tends to fade in and fade out, as with dreaming, it can all become very mystical. Our realities, which we may not have had all our lives, can become delusional for mystical and magical reasons. This might be why, for example, when we are psychotic, the television seems to talk to us, or we might see and know Jesus—again, for reasons of a mystical or even religious nature. It becomes difficult for us then to realize that it is not necessarily real. The further and further we are or are not drawn deeper into a full blown psychosis—it's just baffling, to say the least—the more it is complex and disorganized. Yet we might believe wholeheartedly that our delusions are real and based on facts—facts that are not correct to others without the illness. Many episodes, thoughts, and experiences combine, thus building up a storyline, which then becomes more intense and even fascinating and seductive, with more and more meaning as the delusional realities or events go on—as our lives go on. The meanings become “hidden” or disguised—our realities, in a way, hidden. This illness can thus become very isolating because we have a whole different belief system about the entire world, especially when we are in a major psychotic episode. It can take years and years to arrive at this fully agitated state, but that is often how we schizophrenics will end up being diagnosed, just as an alcoholic usually “needs” to bottom out completely before getting help. Through our perceptions, which change over time, we develop a new way of thinking that becomes very hard for us to disengage from. It is exactly like being on a constant, continuous LSD trip, every single day. This is the bottom line, and, for me, this “acid trip” never stops, even when recover. It is a matter of training and re-training our minds, through therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), medications, treatments, and also a lot of training—mental training, which I certainly do on my own, especially when not in a session with my doctor. I'm always checking things over and “reality checking.” I also find it very helpful to have a friend or loved one do what I call “mediating my reality.” I can, for example, ask my wife, who loves me deeply, to see if something is or is not what or how I might be perceiving it to be—from her there is perspective without the illness. There is an element of us losing what is called object permanence or object consistency—as my doctor in California once told me. The famous child psychologist Piaget discovered that, at a very young age, infants will forget about a toy they have been playing with if it disappears from their vision: for example, if a ball rolls out of sight or someone puts it underneath a blanket. At a certain age, that child will begin to look for that missing toy, and, finding it under the blanket, realize that it was in fact there the whole time. It was always there. Before that it had, to the infant, mystically gone away—disappeared from the world entirely. That's what I mean by mystical reasons, because we lose this object permanence, as after all, this could be a sensation rather than the fundamental reality one would have perhaps thought. We see this mysticism in most of our experiences and, yes, it fades in and out, but we basically feel that things, in general, will usually happen for mystical reasons. This becomes a part of our belief system, which is pretty hard to change. Enter the double bind, as, when object permanence is out of the picture, we can be caught in a contradiction, or a series of contradictions, due to cultural or moral, as well as both personal and universal, reasons. We might, for example, in place of object permanence, experience a “multiple realities” effect, as if we were in several dimensions at one time—several realities. Based on how we grew up, at any given time a reality may slip into our mindset, and so, for example, we might behave like a racist even though our best friend is African American. It doesn't “make sense.” During my last psychotic episode early in 2010, I collected, and even wore, Nazi memorabilia, and yet I am both half Jewish, on my mother's side, and handicapped. I also behaved as if I was a racist, even though my best friend was, and is, African American. We might want to save the world from global warming; however, in doing so we might pollute it and drive gasoline cars, on purpose, in order to save this world. Grandiosity, extreme thinking, and thus extreme behavior—with realities slipping in and out—are only a part of what baffles science and medicine. Different realities slipping in, overlapping, and combining make for an extremely difficult scenario to treat and understand from a scientific perspective. We will often think poetically, as well as symbolically and metaphorically. Poetic thinking can take over, and thus our symbolic and deep personal feelings are a huge part of how we schizophrenics think and reason. We might hallucinate about Jesus for a seemingly concrete reason, a very special reason. When helping someone with schizophrenia, a good start is to consider that he or she thinks mostly through concepts of mysticism—the idea that everything happens for a deep reason, that everything has a very special meaning, and that everything is synchronistic. A schizophrenic is often a very traumatized and sensitive person, much more so than your average Joe, living in a brutal world. That's where the help—the recovery—really starts to take place and healing begins. We schizophrenics must learn, through counseling, to understand ourselves and participate in therapy, to sort through our delusional thinking, and, often with help, to get back as much of our accurate intuition as possible, to take our medicine, and to have love and understanding in our lives. In this way, we might be able to reveal our secrets to someone we can trust, our secrets of trauma, day in and day out—and to do our best, resolving as much inner conflict as we can. Peace of mind is what we all want and need. It is my number one goal in life and has always been. It is what we all deserve. Developing a new identity through our recovery is key in many ways—finding our voice so that we can be heard and sorting through our mysticism and religious or spiritual experiences and observations of reality. It's a matter of finding those people we can trust, as I said, to help us define or redefine our reality. I have that these days, especially through my wife and my doctors. I live with gratitude. Just like diabetes, schizophrenia simply does not go away—not yet—for any of us. It's always there in the background. The “lifelong acid trip”. But, with respect to delusions specifically, I have also had delusions that weren't real. And I wanted to start with why and how we tend to cling to delusional thinking and thus why I perhaps cling not necessarily to a delusion but to this kind of thinking. It is “dimensional” for me. It is a grieving process for me. I am referring to missing my old Hollywood lifestyle—the content involved with that lifestyle of the rich and famous and the grandiose nature of the thinking itself. The celebrities I befriended when I lived and worked in Los Angeles, for example. During the onset period of schizophrenia, delusions, and perceptions, we often begin with smaller-scale hallucinations. There is a root that is actually rational, wrapped inside a delusional outer layer. I think we can actually reach the schizophrenic while that individual is in a completely psychotic state—which often our doctors, caregivers, and loved ones fail to do—by understanding that everything the psychotic schizophrenic individual thinks is done in a synchronistic way. It all starts with object permanence—that we have lost this and that the one reality we once believed in has been replaced as a result of thoughts and events in our lives. A flow of realities, of things appearing and disappearing at the same time—not just the simple ball under the blanket, as the rules of both time and place come into effect here: The time is now, and the place is grounded right here on earth. Let's call it an earth belief or thought. These thoughts and beliefs can, through the “schizophrenic lens,” basically occur at the same time. This waking dream, this constant LSD trip, this real-life synchronicity (Carl Jung first coined the term “synchronicity”), and this more fluid mindset. If we are to think at the core of a schizophrenic in order to reach him or her, this means thinking synchronistically. If we are not stable enough or properly medicated, our dreams can actually become part of the same reality as reality itself. For example, my wife once asked me, “Jonathan, are you going to be recording an episode for your podcast today?” I had been planning on doing so, but I had not yet told my wife. I simply said, “Oh yes, I was actually thinking about it. It's been a while since the last one.” Now, if I were in a more psychotic state, I might have (or, rather, the delusional process might have) started with my real-life fascination with Edgar Cayce and psychic ideas, my New Age books, and my meditations into the Akashic field—and so I would have concluded that my wife was secretly reading my mind, or that she and what she said were mystically connected in some way—that she “knew something.” My psychic experiences in the past would have then overlapped with my wife knowing something psychically, mystically, and symbolically, and also with synchronicity—creating a deep and personal meaning. Add to that the paranoia that comes from her “reading my mind”—that she is therefore “God” because she knows I'm planning on recording my podcast today, even though I haven't told her. The terrifying belief is now engrained, as we are to begin with often more sensitive to the world as a whole—even being touched on the hand or the ear can create extreme fear for us schizophrenics. The belief that “she knew I was going to record a podcast today.” Synchronicity may have a little or some scientific evidence, at least theoretically. However, there are things that we cannot prove through science, such as the definition of time—or even God. In a state of schizophrenic psychosis, this overlap becomes compounded, as it builds up more intensely and thus perhaps takes over our entire belief system. Perhaps there is a coherent way of explaining how we schizophrenics might create our own reality, our delusional or schizophrenic reality, as I see it, through some of the things I have laid out so far—please bear with me here. I'll speak for myself, and my own experiences, although the end result is now something I can talk about and demystify rather than actually believe—thanks to the proper treatment, therapies, and support I now receive. I'll first start with a collection of thoughts. Theoretically, let's say, for real: • In 2008, I made a film called On the Bus about mental illness—it was part of the story in the film. • Mel Gibson (an old friend from California)—he and I were first introduced to each other in 2001. • I listened to The Beach Boys. We'll assume that the music was playing in the car with Mel as we went for a drive, as we did up in the hills of Malibu. • Mel Gibson is rich and famous. Whether in a state of schizophrenic psychosis or not, since this seems to be a matter of degree—depending on how psychotic we might or might not be and how much the psychotic part of our minds has taken hold. This is a matter of our abilities and the constantly fluctuating brain chemistry that we might—or perhaps might not—be able to filter through. It depends on whether we have been successful in redefining our delusional realities to a generally consistent state of well-being and peace of mind. In a psychotic state, due to our hallucinatory thinking, the chemistry in my brain, our brains, is constantly misfiring, so that the stimuli from the environment go to the wrong places in our brains. The effect is similar to putting our hand under cold water and feeling hot. Essentially, though, with this schizophrenic thinking process, I would come up with a “composite sketch,” if you will, a sort of “Frankenstein” version—a storyline that might be experienced as: • I knew Mel Gibson, and therefore I am famous. (Based on: Mel Gibson is famous and is rich.) • Then—but at the same time—I am rich because I made a movie called Ten Years, and I am convinced it made me rich because Mel Gibson is rich, and I am famous because I made my movie, it won awards, and Mel Gibson did, too. I must have met Mel Gibson because I made a movie, and he did, too, and we are both rich and famous. So far—this might not be the best example, but time can thus be altered—2008 is coming before 2003 in this case. This might be a little hard to follow, but please bear with me here.If I were asked to explain this while still psychotic, I'd say first that I am not mentally ill—I am simply psychic, rich, and famous. Besides, the Beach Boys were playing, and one of the Beach Boys has a mental illness, not me, but my film was about mental illness. Brian Wilson is still rich and famous, and also an artist, so he was playing on the radio because both Mel and I were both artists and it was “meant to be” that he would be playing music for us because we were all connected through art, fame, and money. Exhausting, isn't it? But this is actually how jumbled it can be for us and thus for those witnessing us speaking or even communicating in general terms. It's schizophrenia. Let's assume that we got pulled over for speeding. Well, there is a police officer character in On the Bus, my movie. You see, grandiosity, both real and imagined, content, time inconsistencies, and now this character was in the movie, so, because we were all in the car, we were in the movie while in the car, so the police officer was playing her role—it all happened for a reason. And beyond that, paranoia might also slip in—the officer who pulled us over was male (not female), and in my movie she was female, so she was disguising herself in order to take our money and meet three famous people (even Brian Wilson on the radio). Theoretically, this might suffice as a pseudo-case study, and yet in normal reality, for us schizophrenics, this type or process of thinking compounds itself and thus it can become completely distorted. Our friends and families start to think we're going crazy (although in a way we are), and stigma arises, plus confusion and thinking, “What the heck happened to this guy—he's speaking like a drug addict who's lost his mind. Where is all this coming from?” We would all benefit from greater awareness of what schizophrenia is and how to know if someone we love might be predisposed to the illness (through family history, etc.). But this is what we with schizophrenia usually experience early on, as the illness is progressing—we believe this thinking based on other facts—facts which are disconnected, something we cannot see without appropriate help. Later, yes, we can have this type of thinking while recovered or recovering, but we are able, hopefully, to be mindful enough to have such thinking but to cope with it differently, and even, down the road, to do our own “reality checks,” so that we do not not talk about these things inappropriately, in public, let's say. We can also use the hallmark of CBT, which is “evidence”, on our own in order to connect the disconnected parts of our thoughts—thus our reality. We can also do this with the support of loved ones, family, doctors, medications, friends, and support groups who help us and love us enough to be able to assist us in connecting the right pieces together and who explain why they connect—the reasons why. To wrap this up for now, I have not even mentioned the hearing of voices and hallucinations—everything from shadows to people, even friends—and the hidden, traumatic, and paranoid features of schizophrenia of which we are often too afraid to speak. We might sound or behave cryptically, in code, with pressured speech and flight of ideas. Add to this the “zombie-like” features, the manic episodes, the muscle dystonia, and the side effects of medication, and if we have turned to drugs, often just one hit of pot to quell the symptoms—yikes! We're often too embarrassed to speak of our early experiences with schizophrenia, to say that, “Yes, indeed, this is an extremely devastating and debilitating illness.” I am so glad that I am at a place in my recovery. I do have my bad days. I haven't even slept during the last day—insomnia (technically, another symptom), but I am glad that I have been to this intoxicating wonderland and come back—just enough to be able to deliver this kind of explanation, perhaps demystifying in a way that others can understand some of these processes that affect about 1% of the world's population. Schizoaffective disorder, then, includes manic highs and periods of deep depression. My Tourette's syndrome features the obvious muscle tics but also obsessive/compulsive tendencies and elements of autism or Asperger's (often referred to as higher functioning form autism—in summary, but it is, of course, much more than that). We all have our issues. It's how we deal with them that sets us apart. As always, my journey continues, on and on. Yes, you could say I've been through the wringer. I am opening up and sharing my world and my experiences—with hope. Participation in my own recovery, along with metacognition (usually in deficit for those with schizophrenia) and mindfulness, have all helped me become who I am today: an accomplished writer (literature and film/TV) and technically a professional author of erotic fiction. I often laugh at this because there are so many sides of me—the “angel demon human dichotomy”—as I use various outlets to express my creativity. I have an education primarily in the arts, but I worked on Wall Street in my “healthier” days, so I know a bit about that! However, I ultimately chose to do what I am doing now—which is just this. I am also a film producer and a musician. My new full 15-track LP will be arriving at over 60 retailers in the coming weeks, possibly under the band name Waspy Honk Afro. All my work is also available for free and will always be free, as far as I know. My thoughts are free—my public life, the “open source” information-life of J.H. I've lived in New York, Connecticut, Paris France, Los Angeles, and now New Mexico; I am now married and I write a diary and podcast mostly about mental illness, inspiration, New Age ideas, and transgressive material—transgressional fiction. [If you've seen or read Fight Club—it's pretty much like that!]I am, myself, an expert on my own experiences and myself; that's about all I'm an expert on. I am not a doctor of any kind. I enjoy learning, reading, and communicating. Whatever I say or write, I like to add: “take what you will, leave the rest.” I try my best to speak for myself when it comes down to it. Please take note that some of the above writing has been paraphrased from my second novel, Second Alibi: The Banality of Life (2014).
The point of this series is to start a conversation about how those of us diagnosed with psychotic disorders get people to believe our truths. After all, once you've been diagnosed as being psychotic, your credibility is never the same, even when you're speaking the truth. I have a podcast on iTunes in which I reveal a lot about myself, and lately I've noticed how much these podcasts have been teaching me about myself and what I've lost. This illness has taken a great deal from me, including my ability to gain recognition for my accomplishments. So, what I'd like to do here is recognize some of these accomplishments, knowing that had my life been different, they could have been acknowledged in a more public arena. Knowing, too, that, because I have schizoaffective disorder that is characterized by delusional thinking, hallucinations, and mood fluctuations, even when I speak the truth, I am often dismissed and not believed, with my truths described as mere delusions. I want to acknowledge my accomplishments not only for myself but also for all you out there. Those of you who may or may not already be diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or any other serious mental condition, whose truths, like mine, are so frequently dismissed as delusions. It upsets me even to write this, to realize that those around me can—and do—categorize what I say as delusional, and I wonder if that also happens to you. I'd like to begin by briefly mentioning that I was diagnosed with Tourette's at the age of 12, although, according to my mother, I had shown symptoms since I was two. I sometimes wonder whether I was even then showing signs of the psychosis that has plagued me for my entire adult life. I was 18 when I had my first psychotic episode. It was Christmas Day, 1994. I was living in New York City and was admitted to Beth Israel, where I was given a number of tests—medical and psychological. My toxicology report came up 100% clean, a clear indication that my psychosis was not drug-induced. My intake report by the ER doctor shows that I had a “loosening of association” and “pressured speech,” both of which can indicate schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, or bipolar disorder with psychotic features. No wonder it took so long for me to get the right diagnosis; so many of the symptoms overlap. However, I want to bring this back to delusion and truth, and how people so frequently label your truths as delusional as soon as you've been diagnosed with a psychotic disorder. I will also discuss my condition's genesis and prognosis—and then move onto those accomplishments for which I've never been truly recognized. I often wonder if other people, like me, have trouble being believed. As I may have mentioned already, serious mental illness, such as schizoaffective disorder, is believed to be caused first by a genetic predisposition to develop mental illness and second by environmental factors. In my family, I have a grandfather who seems to have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, according to old medical records that I recently found. In addition, I have two second cousins, both of whom have been publicly diagnosed with mental illness. So, I would definitely seem to be genetically predisposed to becoming mentally ill. However, having this predisposition isn't enough. You also need certain environmental factors. What I've read in some of the literature is that mental illness can be compared to diabetes. A person may be genetically predisposed to develop diabetes, but if that person gets enough exercise and watches their sugar intake, then the diabetes may never take hold—it's the same with mental illness. In my case, I had the predisposition, but I also underwent enough traumas (sexual, physical, and emotional abuse) and upheavals (such as my parents' divorce when I was young) for the illness to take hold. Boy, did it take hold. Sometimes, though, people like my sister, who has a genetic predisposition plus environmental factors (my sister comes from the same family and has had the same kind of upheavals), do not become mentally ill. Nobody knows why. Maybe, as my wife says, it's just the luck of the draw. She's kidding. At least about the luck part, because having mental illness isn't lucky, although we do have to keep laughing about it. Keep positive. You're never alone if you can laugh with someone about it. As I've mentioned, I have schizoaffective disorder. Originally, though, I was diagnosed with depression. That was back in 1994, when I was 18. Over the next 10 years or so, I saw doctor after doctor, moving here and there, trying to find my place in the world. I made seven suicide attempts and had years of alcohol and drug abuse issues. My last suicide attempt was in 2001, and I was freed from my drug and alcohol addictions in early 2003. More than 11 years ago. As I was getting off the drugs, I saw a doctor who diagnosed me with schizoaffective disorder, which basically means schizophrenia with a mood disorder thrown in, and, in my case, that mood disorder is bipolar with manic features. However, in 2005 and 2006 I saw a doctor who said that I did not have schizoaffective disorder. Instead, I had a personality disorder. The point is that getting the right diagnosis can be time-consuming and frustrating, but it is also necessary, as once I was “re- diagnosed” with schizoaffective disorder, I was able to get on the right medication. But that's a different story altogether. I'm focusing here on being diagnosed with any type of mental illness that includes psychotic features that then make it almost impossible for people around you to believe your truths. However, not only do I have the double whammy of a thought disorder coupled with a mood disorder, I also have Tourette's syndrome, which is considered severe since this usually tapers off in one's 20s but mine did not. I'm 39 now, so, along with the confusion I suffer and the mood fluctuations, I also tic and sometimes engage in coprolalia, which is involuntary swearing or yelling out racial epithets. Hard combination. Added to that mix, I also seem to have aspects of obsessive compulsive disorder—I have to keep my computer arranged ‘just so'; Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)—I frequently relive earlier traumas; attention deficit disorder—I can't focus on anything for any period of time; autism or Asperger's—like Temple Grandin, I may be smart, but I can't read social cues at all. Makes it difficult to hang out and just be “one of the guys.”My current psychiatrist, Dr. C, who—unlike others—never hesitated to diagnose me, saw me when I was at my worst. I was in the middle of a psychotic episode. I was in the process of a divorce (my wife and I have since reconciled), and I had no money, as my family had cut me off from my trust income. In the past, too many doctors had seen me when I did have money and was able to hire people to do what I could not—for example shopping, driving, and cleaning. Because these doctors saw me when I could hire people, they all considered me to be “too high functioning” to have any form of schizophrenia. As a result of being considered “high functioning,” I was diagnosed for years as having a personality disorder. Some doctors thought I had borderline personality disorder (BPD); others thought I had a personality disorder not otherwise specified (NOS). Let me tell you, having the right diagnosis has turned things around at last. I'm now on the right medication. My wife and caregivers understand the nature of the illness and know some excellent ways of dealing with it and with me. Although the illness will never go away, I do have hope that I'll continue to get the right treatment and that my life will continue to get better. Now, the big one: What do you do when people assume your truths are delusions? Let's start with just a little bit more background. At the last count, I have had approximately 30 rehab stints and/or hospitalizations. That's a lot. When you're hospitalized, especially involuntarily, people tend to dismiss everything you say as a symptom of your illness. I understand that, but I don't like it, because it's hard when people don't believe you. A couple of examples. I moved to Los Angeles in January 2001 because I wanted to be a Hollywood screenwriter. I was two days shy of my 25th birthday. I was a go-getter back then, a social butterfly, and found it easy to introduce myself to just about anyone. As a result, I met Joanna Cassidy, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson, and others. Then, as my drug and alcohol use spiraled out of control, I got myself into rehab. Since I had access to my trust fund, I could afford the rehab facilities where “celebrities” went, places such as Promises in Malibu. In these places, I met movie producers, writers, actors, musicians, and kids of celebrities. The point is, I met all these people, and some of them I befriended. Because so many of the rehab facilities didn't help me stay off drugs and alcohol, a friend and I started our own facility, Wavelengths, which also catered to celebrities. Wavelengths took a more proactive approach to getting people off drugs and alcohol. If you ever saw the show The Cleaner, you'll have a better idea of what I mean by “proactive.” In fact, that show was based on the friend with whom I started Wavelengths, and, although I was never credited, I was the co-creator of the show. But now, when I tell people about The Cleaner or knowing Chuck Lorre, Robert Downey Jr., or Mel Gibson, they smile blankly, nod their head, and dismiss what I say as a delusion. That's maddening—if you'll pardon the pun. Another example. In the summer of 2010, I checked myself into a facility in Colorado so I could get on the right meds and try to get myself re-stabilized. As I was being admitted as a patient with schizoaffective disorder, which is characterized by a thought disorder, including delusions, both my wife and my doctor spoke with the facility before I was admitted so that the doctors and social workers would know I wasn't delusional about the people I knew. My wife and doctor also let the facility know about my financial background, because I don't always look “rich.” Lately, I like to dress in t-shirts and pajama bottoms. I like to keep my hair permed and wild, and I like to wear a beard. As a result, sometimes when I'm admitted, the staff person will write that I'm a little unkempt, and when I then start talking about the money I'm worth, the same staff person will flash a little, tight smile as if to say: “Of course, you are. And I have a Swiss bank account.” Those staff people don't always know that I can “tell” what they're thinking—I can see it on their faces—, and they feel free to openly doubt my truth. More on “delusions.” The reason I write is to share my story, and sometimes—I've got to admit—it's hard knowing that a lot of people may not believe me. I bring this up because I'm sure that those of you who read what I write must have as complicated a story as mine. I am just spelling out some things—kind of “straight-from-the-heart” sharing with you all. My family, as I've mentioned, is rich and powerful. Maybe your family is not rich or powerful, but still I think you'll understand. Their money and their power helped make me who I am, just as your parents helped make you who you are. I'm not attacking anyone. I am simply telling the story of my life. I have earned the right to do that. Come to think of it, though, maybe I never did have to “earn the right” to tell the story of my life. People have a right to their own stories and to tell these stories in their own voice, not anybody else's. This is my time. My story. Not my family's. And I owe it to you to share a taste of the complexity of my life, so you'll understand the complexity of your own. So, yes, my family is rich and powerful. That is not a delusion. You can look them up yourself. They are public people. Sometimes I think that because they are public people, they have had a hard time accepting me for who I am. I know they have had a hard time accepting my diagnosis. And, really, I am not attacking them. Maybe they can't accept my diagnosis because they think it will reflect badly on them. I haven't talked to my family in a few years. I wish I felt sad about that, but I can't. My family doesn't love me. Sometimes I think they might even hate me, because they cut off my money and they cut off contact with me. But I'm getting sidetracked—what my wife calls “going off on a tangent.” So I'll stop. One area that has always been hard and that created a lot of misunderstanding in my family is my diagnosis. No one has ever accepted that I had the wrong diagnosis for years and that getting the right diagnosis has helped me move forward. Not that a diagnosis makes the illness easy, and, in many respects, a diagnosis is nothing but a label. However, with the right diagnosis (or label), you can get the right medication, the right therapy, and people—like caregivers—who know how to deal with you. The right diagnosis is a starting point that means you can read about whatever “label” you have been tagged with—or might need to be tagged with. In my case, I was “tagged with” BPD for years. On the one hand, that wasn't such a bad diagnosis, because people wouldn't then label me as being delusional. On the other hand, when people thought I had BPD, they accused me of lying, which brings me back to my family. In the past, my family has told me to “snap out of it” and to “get my act together”—that I would then be “fine.” You can't “snap out” of schizophrenia. You may get the symptoms under control, and you may even, like John Nash, seem to recover from the disorder, but you don't—and can't—“snap out of it.” My family, believing that I was capable of getting my act together, created a lot of tension between us. I use the past tense here because I don't know if they now believe my diagnosis. As I've mentioned, we've had no contact since January 2010, so I don't know what they believe. In January of that year, my family cut me off and stripped me of any help. I had no gardeners and no driver (I no longer drive). I had nothing. Based on what they wrote to me at the time, they seemed to think that they should provide a little “tough love” (like you see on Intervention) and that I would then agree to get better. I was never not agreeing to get better. Believe me, it's no fun having schizoaffective disorder. If your family or loved ones already believe your diagnosis, you are that much farther ahead because, if they believe the diagnosis, they can help. I'm taking my own advice today and staying positive. I think of all I have lost, and I can get very depressed. At one time, I had editors, housekeepers, free travel, a huge inheritance, my trust funds, and lavish cars. I've been to the best schools in the country. I had public-figure parents and several celebrities in my extended family, some of whom had actually, quite publicly, been diagnosed with mental illnesses. When I compare what I once had to what I now have, I can get depressed. I focus on the past and fail to appreciate the present. Taking my own advice to stay positive, I have three dogs, seven cats, and one bird. Now, some people might not think having so many animals is so positive, but I like walking through the house and every time being followed by at least one of them. My animals are one positive. Another positive. I no longer have diabetes. I have lost so much weight that my blood sugar is normal. I still take one of the diabetic meds because it can prevent diabetes—and also because my other meds can cause diabetes. But I am healthier than I was. No diabetes is another positive. My wife is the third positive. We reconciled two years ago, and so far we are working things out and trying to help each other. My work is the fourth positive. The schizoaffective disorder has really affected my thinking and my emotions, but it hasn't touched my creativity. I podcast, I write a journal, and I make music and movies. I have even sold a couple of songs on iTunes. My memories are the fifth and final positive for today. Although my father and I had a falling out in 2009, that's his issue. He and I have had great, absolutely fantastic, times together, and I treasure the memories. When I focus only on these memories, I can stay positive. For many reasons, I have had quite a few psychiatrists over the years. My current doctor—whom I call Dr. C—is the one that most recently diagnosed me as having schizoaffective disorder. When I went to see her the second or third time, I brought along five bookshelves' worth of my journals. My diaries. All my written documentation of madness—the faxes and emails that proved that 1,000 hours of film that I had shot had been stolen. That's it. I can't do anything about it. I have proof of a software development proposal I made when I was 15. I received a scholarship to business school, honors, and recognition. I was like John Nash except I was proposing software, not math. What I proposed would have been the first online shopping interface. But it got taken away, like everything. I have the proof, the actual documents. Real. These truths are mine. And I have schizophrenia, and I even have delusions, but I know, and my wife knows, and my close friends know, that these truths are real—not delusions. I spent three years of my life developing a show for A&E Television. I have the proof. I save everything. Faxes to the producers. My point is that I have lived an incredible life and often, all too often, facts become so-called delusions to others, especially to those others who actually count, like medical professionals. And it matters to me. All of this really matters to me. It means something very special to me because it is about me. It is from my perspective and only my perspective—the only perspective I know for sure. It's part of my story, or, as some might consider it, the “myth of that stupid Jonathan kid.” I know who I am. And I think I know who my friends are. I know that I am a legitimate, loving, grateful and spiritual human being who deserves to be loved and accepted and who deserves to make decisions, to make mistakes, and to be forgiven—to be myself. The real me. The Jonathan Harnisch who is not alone—who is loved. The Jonathan whose moods and behaviors might be a bit difficult to predict. A guy. A citizen, with schizophrenia and a full spectrum of mental maladies, who believes in some kind of higher power—who believes in himself. Who tries, tries, and tries—who never gives up on, or even thinks of giving up on, resilience. Who struggles every single day as an adult that is still being abused. Who has been abandoned and treated like waste—a mistake. Who is manipulated. Jonathan Harnisch. A teacher and a student. A rich kid who used to ride up front with his limousine driver. Who used to be a real asshole, often due to his drinking and drugging—and to his mimicking what he saw growing up among people who should have acted better but who just didn't know how to protect him. I have been in therapy since I was 9, and from the age of 12 I was “put away” on far too many medications, some of which I am still physically addicted to, some of which caused me to gain weight and to develop tardive dyskinesia (chronic muscle stiffness), and some of which I was actually allergic to, causing me to rage and even increasing my tendency to drink alcohol. I chose what I did, regardless what the literature suggests or what certain medical studies indicate. I am who I am, and I have my own story—my own version of my own story. It changes and adjusts on a constant basis. I've been closed up for so long. I am opening up. I am not being inappropriate. I don't need to be judged. But I will be judged. I don't need to worry about what others think of me. But I actually do care what other people think of me. I can't control other people. Come to think of it, I can't control what thoughts come into my head, just as I can't control which ones leave. So how can I control other people or their thoughts? How can anybody control the galaxy? How about the billions upon billions of existing galaxies or the billions of galaxies that have not yet even been discovered? That is what we are living with—within. Even Jesus experienced the full gamut of the human emotion spectrum, having been so-called spirit in human form. He was killed for that, for being who he was—for being honest and sincere, and, essentially, for being real. His life was far from easy. The most enlightened beings in the history of mankind—Buddha, Jesus, Mother Teresa, Gandhi, Krishna, and the Dalai Lama—have struggled and suffered every single day of their lives. And they too, in a way, live within us all. I want to let you know that you are not alone. You will never, ever be alone. I am excited and determined to come to you, who are seeking . . . seeking something. Maybe you're just reading as you sit there at work, or maybe you're my family, checking to see how I am, if I'm “misbehaving.” What I am is a disabled and, yes, a very troubled adult. But I am allowed to share my story. My life. I am safe. Now, I laugh now when I say this, but my wife is 24 years older than I am. And if and when she passes away before I do, or for any reason leaves me (I doubt she will—we seem to be doing very well together), I worry that I will be forced into a psychiatric institution back east, back near my family, when we don't even talk. I worry that it's inevitable. I guess, in conclusion, my life is full of grandiosity. But I still have schizophrenia, and I still have people who seem to have a need to control me and yet want nothing to do with me. This fascinates me. Why do they still want that much to do with me? Somebody who happens to also be a staff writer for a local news magazine independently wrote the following about me, which I have included on my website. It makes me feel so good. See! Things can change.Envision a blend of a mentally ill mind with unsurpassed resiliency and fiery intellect and your result would be the brilliant Jonathan Harnisch. An all-around artist, Jonathan writes fiction and screenplays, sketches, imagines, and creates. His most recent artistic endeavor is developing music, a newfound passion with visible and of course audible results already in the making. Produced filmmaker and published erotica author, Jonathan holds myriad accolades, and his works captivate the attention of those who experience it. Manic-toned scripts with parallel lives, masochistic tendencies in sexual escapades, and disturbing clarities embellished with addiction, fetish, lust, and love, are just a taste of themes found in Jonathan's transgressive literature. Conversely, his award-winning films capture the ironies of life, love, self-acceptance, tragedy, and fantasy. Jonathan's art evokes laughter and shock, elation and sadness, but overall forces you to step back and question your own version of reality. Scripts, screenplays, and schizophrenia are defining factors of Jonathan's life and reality—but surface labels are often incomplete. Jonathan is diagnosed with several mental illnesses from schizoaffective disorder to Tourette's syndrome; playfully, he dubs himself the “King of Mental Illness.” Despite daily symptomatic struggles and thoughts, Jonathan radiates an authentic, effervescent, and loving spirit. His resiliency emanates from the greatest lesson he's learned: laughter. His diagnoses and life experiences encourage him to laugh at reality as others see it. Wildly eccentric, open-minded, passionate, and driven, Jonathan has a feral imagination. His inherent traits transpose to his art, making his works some of the most original and thought provoking of modern day. Jonathan is an alumnus of Choate Rosemary Hall. Subsequently, he attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he studied film production and screenwriting under Gary Winick and David Irving. During his studies at NYU, he held internships under renowned producers Steven Haft and Ismail Merchant. He is best known for his short films, On the Bus and Wax, both of which boast countless awards including five Indie Film Awards, three Accolade Awards, and Ten Years won, which won the Best Short Film and Audience Award in the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival, to name a few. Despite his impressive formal education and awarded honors, Jonathan is your normal, down-to-earth guy. Meditation, Duran Duran, vivid colors, Patrick Nagel prints, and rearranging furniture are some of his favorite things. Vices include cigarettes, Diet Coke, inappropriate swearing, and sausage and green chili pizza. He enjoys irony, planned spontaneity, redefining himself, and change. Jonathan lives with his beautiful wife, their three dogs and seven cats, in the unique, desert village of Corrales, New Mexico. What follows gives a glimpse into how I have been putting together some of the pieces of the otherwise “shattered stained glass” of schizophrenia, as I see it—from what I have read and heard and just . . . believe. My psychiatrist has often asked me to describe or explain my symptoms, and thus schizophrenia, and I usually do not know how to do so. I simply reply that it is all “indescribable.” Since then, I have been looking deeper into myself so that I am able, at minimum, to summarize at least a few of my experiences, past and present, in order to share with you too some of the complexity—demystified. I'd like to share some of my discoveries, as I find them, concerning my experiences, false perceptions, and schizophrenic psychosis. Hopefully, I'll succeed in maintaining simplicity so that others can benefit and perhaps understand this otherwise extremely complex disorder. I have come to realize that thanks to my own self, my lovely wife (whom I've known for over six years now), my support team (medical doctors and friends), and even those who might be considered my enemies, I have been helped along the path to self-actualization and thus to self-understanding—to where I find myself today. I've been able to find some meaning in schizophrenia, which helps me redefine how I see myself and how the symptoms of schizophrenia came to be—so that I can describe these without simply dismissing them as “indescribable.” Please forgive any terminology I might use incorrectly, as I am not a doctor. Also, I do have schizophrenia, so although I have stabilized (recovered, not been cured), I must still admit that I might get it wrong sometimes. We schizophrenics, through our psychosis—our delusions, our hallucinations, or reality—create or develop a story, a storyline. What is real has many universal implications. Many are extremely personal, symbolic, and moral. As we build the framework of our delusional reality, which tends to fade in and fade out, as with dreaming, it can all become very mystical. Our realities, which we may not have had all our lives, can become delusional for mystical and magical reasons. This might be why, for example, when we are psychotic, the television seems to talk to us, or we might see and know Jesus—again, for reasons of a mystical or even religious nature. It becomes difficult for us then to realize that it is not necessarily real. The further and further we are or are not drawn deeper into a full blown psychosis—it's just baffling, to say the least—the more it is complex and disorganized. Yet we might believe wholeheartedly that our delusions are real and based on facts—facts that are not correct to others without the illness. Many episodes, thoughts, and experiences combine, thus building up a storyline, which then becomes more intense and even fascinating and seductive, with more and more meaning as the delusional realities or events go on—as our lives go on. The meanings become “hidden” or disguised—our realities, in a way, hidden. This illness can thus become very isolating because we have a whole different belief system about the entire world, especially when we are in a major psychotic episode. It can take years and years to arrive at this fully agitated state, but that is often how we schizophrenics will end up being diagnosed, just as an alcoholic usually “needs” to bottom out completely before getting help. Through our perceptions, which change over time, we develop a new way of thinking that becomes very hard for us to disengage from. It is exactly like being on a constant, continuous LSD trip, every single day. This is the bottom line, and, for me, this “acid trip” never stops, even when recover. It is a matter of training and re-training our minds, through therapies like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), medications, treatments, and also a lot of training—mental training, which I certainly do on my own, especially when not in a session with my doctor. I'm always checking things over and “reality checking.” I also find it very helpful to have a friend or loved one do what I call “mediating my reality.” I can, for example, ask my wife, who loves me deeply, to see if something is or is not what or how I might be perceiving it to be—from her there is perspective without the illness. There is an element of us losing what is called object permanence or object consistency—as my doctor in California once told me. The famous child psychologist Piaget discovered that, at a very young age, infants will forget about a toy they have been playing with if it disappears from their vision: for example, if a ball rolls out of sight or someone puts it underneath a blanket. At a certain age, that child will begin to look for that missing toy, and, finding it under the blanket, realize that it was in fact there the whole time. It was always there. Before that it had, to the infant, mystically gone away—disappeared from the world entirely. That's what I mean by mystical reasons, because we lose this object permanence, as after all, this could be a sensation rather than the fundamental reality one would have perhaps thought. We see this mysticism in most of our experiences and, yes, it fades in and out, but we basically feel that things, in general, will usually happen for mystical reasons. This becomes a part of our belief system, which is pretty hard to change. Enter the double bind, as, when object permanence is out of the picture, we can be caught in a contradiction, or a series of contradictions, due to cultural or moral, as well as both personal and universal, reasons. We might, for example, in place of object permanence, experience a “multiple realities” effect, as if we were in several dimensions at one time—several realities. Based on how we grew up, at any given time a reality may slip into our mindset, and so, for example, we might behave like a racist even though our best friend is African American. It doesn't “make sense.” During my last psychotic episode early in 2010, I collected, and even wore, Nazi memorabilia, and yet I am both half Jewish, on my mother's side, and handicapped. I also behaved as if I was a racist, even though my best friend was, and is, African American. We might want to save the world from global warming; however, in doing so we might pollute it and drive gasoline cars, on purpose, in order to save this world. Grandiosity, extreme thinking, and thus extreme behavior—with realities slipping in and out—are only a part of what baffles science and medicine. Different realities slipping in, overlapping, and combining make for an extremely difficult scenario to treat and understand from a scientific perspective. We will often think poetically, as well as symbolically and metaphorically. Poetic thinking can take over, and thus our symbolic and deep personal feelings are a huge part of how we schizophrenics think and reason. We might hallucinate about Jesus for a seemingly concrete reason, a very special reason. When helping someone with schizophrenia, a good start is to consider that he or she thinks mostly through concepts of mysticism—the idea that everything happens for a deep reason, that everything has a very special meaning, and that everything is synchronistic. A schizophrenic is often a very traumatized and sensitive person, much more so than your average Joe, living in a brutal world. That's where the help—the recovery—really starts to take place and healing begins. We schizophrenics must learn, through counseling, to understand ourselves and participate in therapy, to sort through our delusional thinking, and, often with help, to get back as much of our accurate intuition as possible, to take our medicine, and to have love and understanding in our lives. In this way, we might be able to reveal our secrets to someone we can trust, our secrets of trauma, day in and day out—and to do our best, resolving as much inner conflict as we can. Peace of mind is what we all want and need. It is my number one goal in life and has always been. It is what we all deserve. Developing a new identity through our recovery is key in many ways—finding our voice so that we can be heard and sorting through our mysticism and religious or spiritual experiences and observations of reality. It's a matter of finding those people we can trust, as I said, to help us define or redefine our reality. I have that these days, especially through my wife and my doctors. I live with gratitude. Just like diabetes, schizophrenia simply does not go away—not yet—for any of us. It's always there in the background. The “lifelong acid trip”. But, with respect to delusions specifically, I have also had delusions that weren't real. And I wanted to start with why and how we tend to cling to delusional thinking and thus why I perhaps cling not necessarily to a delusion but to this kind of thinking. It is “dimensional” for me. It is a grieving process for me. I am referring to missing my old Hollywood lifestyle—the content involved with that lifestyle of the rich and famous and the grandiose nature of the thinking itself. The celebrities I befriended when I lived and worked in Los Angeles, for example. During the onset period of schizophrenia, delusions, and perceptions, we often begin with smaller-scale hallucinations. There is a root that is actually rational, wrapped inside a delusional outer layer. I think we can actually reach the schizophrenic while that individual is in a completely psychotic state—which often our doctors, caregivers, and loved ones fail to do—by understanding that everything the psychotic schizophrenic individual thinks is done in a synchronistic way. It all starts with object permanence—that we have lost this and that the one reality we once believed in has been replaced as a result of thoughts and events in our lives. A flow of realities, of things appearing and disappearing at the same time—not just the simple ball under the blanket, as the rules of both time and place come into effect here: The time is now, and the place is grounded right here on earth. Let's call it an earth belief or thought. These thoughts and beliefs can, through the “schizophrenic lens,” basically occur at the same time. This waking dream, this constant LSD trip, this real-life synchronicity (Carl Jung first coined the term “synchronicity”), and this more fluid mindset. If we are to think at the core of a schizophrenic in order to reach him or her, this means thinking synchronistically. If we are not stable enough or properly medicated, our dreams can actually become part of the same reality as reality itself. For example, my wife once asked me, “Jonathan, are you going to be recording an episode for your podcast today?” I had been planning on doing so, but I had not yet told my wife. I simply said, “Oh yes, I was actually thinking about it. It's been a while since the last one.” Now, if I were in a more psychotic state, I might have (or, rather, the delusional process might have) started with my real-life fascination with Edgar Cayce and psychic ideas, my New Age books, and my meditations into the Akashic field—and so I would have concluded that my wife was secretly reading my mind, or that she and what she said were mystically connected in some way—that she “knew something.” My psychic experiences in the past would have then overlapped with my wife knowing something psychically, mystically, and symbolically, and also with synchronicity—creating a deep and personal meaning. Add to that the paranoia that comes from her “reading my mind”—that she is therefore “God” because she knows I'm planning on recording my podcast today, even though I haven't told her. The terrifying belief is now engrained, as we are to begin with often more sensitive to the world as a whole—even being touched on the hand or the ear can create extreme fear for us schizophrenics. The belief that “she knew I was going to record a podcast today.” Synchronicity may have a little or some scientific evidence, at least theoretically. However, there are things that we cannot prove through science, such as the definition of time—or even God. In a state of schizophrenic psychosis, this overlap becomes compounded, as it builds up more intensely and thus perhaps takes over our entire belief system. Perhaps there is a coherent way of explaining how we schizophrenics might create our own reality, our delusional or schizophrenic reality, as I see it, through some of the things I have laid out so far—please bear with me here. I'll speak for myself, and my own experiences, although the end result is now something I can talk about and demystify rather than actually believe—thanks to the proper treatment, therapies, and support I now receive. I'll first start with a collection of thoughts. Theoretically, let's say, for real: • In 2008, I made a film called On the Bus about mental illness—it was part of the story in the film. • Mel Gibson (an old friend from California)—he and I were first introduced to each other in 2001. • I listened to The Beach Boys. We'll assume that the music was playing in the car with Mel as we went for a drive, as we did up in the hills of Malibu. • Mel Gibson is rich and famous. Whether in a state of schizophrenic psychosis or not, since this seems to be a matter of degree—depending on how psychotic we might or might not be and how much the psychotic part of our minds has taken hold. This is a matter of our abilities and the constantly fluctuating brain chemistry that we might—or perhaps might not—be able to filter through. It depends on whether we have been successful in redefining our delusional realities to a generally consistent state of well-being and peace of mind. In a psychotic state, due to our hallucinatory thinking, the chemistry in my brain, our brains, is constantly misfiring, so that the stimuli from the environment go to the wrong places in our brains. The effect is similar to putting our hand under cold water and feeling hot. Essentially, though, with this schizophrenic thinking process, I would come up with a “composite sketch,” if you will, a sort of “Frankenstein” version—a storyline that might be experienced as: • I knew Mel Gibson, and therefore I am famous. (Based on: Mel Gibson is famous and is rich.) • Then—but at the same time—I am rich because I made a movie called Ten Years, and I am convinced it made me rich because Mel Gibson is rich, and I am famous because I made my movie, it won awards, and Mel Gibson did, too. I must have met Mel Gibson because I made a movie, and he did, too, and we are both rich and famous. So far—this might not be the best example, but time can thus be altered—2008 is coming before 2003 in this case. This might be a little hard to follow, but please bear with me here.If I were asked to explain this while still psychotic, I'd say first that I am not mentally ill—I am simply psychic, rich, and famous. Besides, the Beach Boys were playing, and one of the Beach Boys has a mental illness, not me, but my film was about mental illness. Brian Wilson is still rich and famous, and also an artist, so he was playing on the radio because both Mel and I were both artists and it was “meant to be” that he would be playing music for us because we were all connected through art, fame, and money. Exhausting, isn't it? But this is actually how jumbled it can be for us and thus for those witnessing us speaking or even communicating in general terms. It's schizophrenia. Let's assume that we got pulled over for speeding. Well, there is a police officer character in On the Bus, my movie. You see, grandiosity, both real and imagined, content, time inconsistencies, and now this character was in the movie, so, because we were all in the car, we were in the movie while in the car, so the police officer was playing her role—it all happened for a reason. And beyond that, paranoia might also slip in—the officer who pulled us over was male (not female), and in my movie she was female, so she was disguising herself in order to take our money and meet three famous people (even Brian Wilson on the radio). Theoretically, this might suffice as a pseudo-case study, and yet in normal reality, for us schizophrenics, this type or process of thinking compounds itself and thus it can become completely distorted. Our friends and families start to think we're going crazy (although in a way we are), and stigma arises, plus confusion and thinking, “What the heck happened to this guy—he's speaking like a drug addict who's lost his mind. Where is all this coming from?” We would all benefit from greater awareness of what schizophrenia is and how to know if someone we love might be predisposed to the illness (through family history, etc.). But this is what we with schizophrenia usually experience early on, as the illness is progressing—we believe this thinking based on other facts—facts which are disconnected, something we cannot see without appropriate help. Later, yes, we can have this type of thinking while recovered or recovering, but we are able, hopefully, to be mindful enough to have such thinking but to cope with it differently, and even, down the road, to do our own “reality checks,” so that we do not not talk about these things inappropriately, in public, let's say. We can also use the hallmark of CBT, which is “evidence”, on our own in order to connect the disconnected parts of our thoughts—thus our reality. We can also do this with the support of loved ones, family, doctors, medications, friends, and support groups who help us and love us enough to be able to assist us in connecting the right pieces together and who explain why they connect—the reasons why. To wrap this up for now, I have not even mentioned the hearing of voices and hallucinations—everything from shadows to people, even friends—and the hidden, traumatic, and paranoid features of schizophrenia of which we are often too afraid to speak. We might sound or behave cryptically, in code, with pressured speech and flight of ideas. Add to this the “zombie-like” features, the manic episodes, the muscle dystonia, and the side effects of medication, and if we have turned to drugs, often just one hit of pot to quell the symptoms—yikes! We're often too embarrassed to speak of our early experiences with schizophrenia, to say that, “Yes, indeed, this is an extremely devastating and debilitating illness.” I am so glad that I am at a place in my recovery. I do have my bad days. I haven't even slept during the last day—insomnia (technically, another symptom), but I am glad that I have been to this intoxicating wonderland and come back—just enough to be able to deliver this kind of explanation, perhaps demystifying in a way that others can understand some of these processes that affect about 1% of the world's population. Schizoaffective disorder, then, includes manic highs and periods of deep depression. My Tourette's syndrome features the obvious muscle tics but also obsessive/compulsive tendencies and elements of autism or Asperger's (often referred to as higher functioning form autism—in summary, but it is, of course, much more than that). We all have our issues. It's how we deal with them that sets us apart. As always, my journey continues, on and on. Yes, you could say I've been through the wringer. I am opening up and sharing my world and my experiences—with hope. Participation in my own recovery, along with metacognition (usually in deficit for those with schizophrenia) and mindfulness, have all helped me become who I am today: an accomplished writer (literature and film/TV) and technically a professional author of erotic fiction. I often laugh at this because there are so many sides of me—the “angel demon human dichotomy”—as I use various outlets to express my creativity. I have an education primarily in the arts, but I worked on Wall Street in my “healthier” days, so I know a bit about that! However, I ultimately chose to do what I am doing now—which is just this. I am also a film producer and a musician. My new full 15-track LP will be arriving at over 60 retailers in the coming weeks, possibly under the band name Waspy Honk Afro. All my work is also available for free and will always be free, as far as I know. My thoughts are free—my public life, the “open source” information-life of J.H. I've lived in New York, Connecticut, Paris France, Los Angeles, and now New Mexico; I am now married and I write a diary and podcast mostly about mental illness, inspiration, New Age ideas, and transgressive material—transgressional fiction. [If you've seen or read Fight Club—it's pretty much like that!]I am, myself, an expert on my own experiences and myself; that's about all I'm an expert on. I am not a doctor of any kind. I enjoy learning, reading, and communicating. Whatever I say or write, I like to add: “take what you will, leave the rest.” I try my best to speak for myself when it comes down to it. Please take note that some of the above writing has been paraphrased from my second novel, Second Alibi: The Banality of Life (2014).
RIGHT CLICK IMAGE TO SAVE EPISODE TO YOUR COMPUTER. We present a new interview in our series with those who were a part of making it happen. And this time around, we have the man himself, Michael Gray, who played Billy Batson on Shazam! Michael talks with us about his career, his time on Shazam! including his favorite episodes, his dealing with typecasting and how it is so different for actors playing hero types today, and his comeback starting with an appearance on Archer. Good looks and a couple of television roles helped to give actor Michael Gray many years in between and on the covers of Tiger Beat magazine. Born in Chicago, Michael moved to Florida when he was a young boy. He caught the acting bug in high school, and eventually made his way to Hollywood. In 1972, Michael won the role of Ronnie on the NBC series The Little People, a charming sitcom that starred Brian Keith as a pediatrician with a practice on Oahu, Hawaii. The series was reworked for the second season and retitled The Brian Keith Show, and Michael was let go. Signed to a management deal with Charles Laufer, pubisher of "Tiger Beat," Michael was able to keep a high profile while rounding up other acting roles. Michael's second series came in 1974, when he was cast in his signature role, as Billy Batson on the Saturday morning series Shazam. The series ran for 3 years but was then cancelled due to increasing production costs. Some of Michael's other credits include: Life with Father Entertainment Tonight Room 222 MTV's - I Love the 70's The Brady Bunch E Television, Life After Stardom Marcus Welby M.D. The Rretro Radio Live Show The Flying Nun VH1 - Superheros, Where Are Dynasty They Now? Although Michael Gray had all the tools one would expect to be necessary to build a sturdy career, due to type casting it became harder for him to make a living at his craft. The ever youthful Michael Gray is happily married and living in Northern California. He is currently writing a book about his life in Hollywood. Links Facebook Fan Page Facebook Page Homepage
Anthony is currently the is the Managing Director of Alternative Business Consulting (ABC) Solutions, a firm dedicated to providing entrepreneurs and small business owners with an array of development services in management, marketing, finance and information technology in order to achieve growth and overcome business "growing pains". I am also the Center Director for Texas Business Centers, a virtual executive office and business incubator located in Denton, Texas that provides affordable office solutions and business development services to start-up and small businesses. Letricia Hendrix is a mother, actor, writer, and film and television camera operator living and working in the Washington DC area. She also has an interest in producing Documentaries and Short Films. Letricia Hendrix is a professional actor and graduate of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Washington, DC. She has appeared in several productions, such as HBOs The Wire, The Vagina Monologues, and Death and the Kings Horseman at Washington Shakespeare Company. She has done industrials for companies such as A&E Television, Discovery Channel and Discovery Classroom, The History Channel, Booz Allen Hamilton, and the Federal Judicial Center.
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